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

Musk bought Twitter - one of the most iconic brands ever - and then rebranded it as " X " for... reasons. That might not have been the savviest of all marketing initiatives.
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Rebounding somewhat from a covid-induced recession, there have been severe production dislocations across industries and throughout the world. This has nothing to do with "extreme environmentalism".
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Poland's government is at odds with the principle of judicial independence. Until Putin invaded on Feb 24 last year, Poland was essentially a pariah in the EU.
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Happy birthday Vlad!
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@99.agility purr
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@denelson83 何ですか
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@denelson83 何ですか
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@MABSDK1993 Russia is not weak, but it is poor. Its GDP is comparable to that of Spain, but with a population roughly 4x lager... and Spain is not among the most prosperous members of EU. Russia's oligarchs are not poor, though.
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sic transit
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I think you need to change yours. These are not mutually contradictive.
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Russia had charged a much as it might for gas and oil. For oil, there are benchmarks such as WTI (West Texas Intermediate) or North Sea Brent. You might see the latest on your news feed. Different grades of crude oil will be more or less preferable. A high content of sulfur, for example, will drive down the price. Some crudes will be less easily refined in one facility than another. An origin might be "contaminated" by an element for which that refinery is not well equipped, or not at scale.. Things often might be more complex than headlines suggest.
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@realnapster1522 We are moving into summer. What may happen thereafter... might be more variable than you now conceive.
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@Altair885 There is massive corruption in Russia, so it is possible - as another commentator implied - that the explosion could have been deliberate to destroy the evidence of siphoned-off and stolen fuel.
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One might argue that Russia is far too politically stable.
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Russia has several hundred million dollars in frozen assets overseas. These can be offered as an offset to foreign assets confiscated in Russia. When and how might Putin's gangster mentality be brought to a halt?
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It would make sense for initial training of Ukrainian pilots first to train in France on these Mirages, while the logistics were set up in Ukraine. Will not be alone in noting that the best combat airframe to help the Ukrainian defense needs, is the Swedish Gripen.
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Shut Russia off SWIFT!
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Russia is already very heavily committed in Ukraine. It probably has fewer available conventional assets in Europe than Britain, France, the Bundeswehr, let alone all 3 combined. I do not delight in the death of Russian soldiers who had not committed war crimes, but those deaths have become necessary.
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...and not well expressed. Those Orcs instead might find someone who speaks English well.
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Your next best move might be to stop being an associate of massive murder.
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There was sufficient capacity for Gazprom to export to western Europe through existing arrangements, Last year, the year before, the year before that... there was no NS2, but there also had been no significant economic dislocation from lack of natural gas. Reconcile your statement with reality.
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@HereticDuo Lilly Tomlin had opined that: History would not repeat itself if we just paused to listen.
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@legateotteriusozer8477 Its cantspell
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@ИванОкеан-б6щ Russia attacked Ukraine with ZERO provocation. As a party to war crimes, you are a member of a rare breed of humans who have no right to live.
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The police need to enforce laws, but also to ensure that laws are respected. Deeply unpopular laws can be enforced, but then the credibility of the police can become critically damaged, severely hampering their ability later to enforce the law .It's a difficult call.
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Rheinmetall does not have a rapid production capability for Leo2's. These tanks come out of inventory from the Budeswehr, and from the armies which had bought their own.
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That can sound good and fine, but Putin clearly is insane. What might he do next? Finland now is less at risk from that crackpot.
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19:49 For many years, PR China has been locked in a time battle between becoming rich, and becoming old.
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There is the risk that if you "press the nuclear button", you press all of them.
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Corporate stock buybacks boost the value of share bonus packages held by retiring executives.
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If you oppose Putin - and survive - you're a criminal.
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@jessicahilario6597 One can expect that this likely means something in whatever might be your native language.
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@PK-mr2fm How so?
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@lovefair6921 His political opponents have a nasty habit of ending up dead, or behind bars if they're lucky..
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@lovefair6921 He's KGB.
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@BW022 Do you not feel lonely when you tell such lies?
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@armandoruiz8758 Had you thought to pause that almost all of Russia's population lives west of the Urals? Probably not. You might not have noticed, but it is a fact that the US, Britain, and France, have nuclear weapons of a same level of destructive power. If you were trying to seem intelligent: that failed.
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@armandoruiz8758 The United State had not bombed [parts of] Korea since the armistice which put an end to the North's aggressive war to conquer the entire peninsula. Given the vile and murderous regime in Pyonyang since, and its unspeakable economic mismanagement resulting in repeated forced famines: bombing the armed forces of those bastards was the morally justifiable option.
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@MyKharli Probably not. EDF had no reason to worry about a rocketing cost structure when petrocarbon prices spiked in 73/74 and later oil crises. Decommissioning is a controllable process which might proceed at a faster or a slower pace. There is no emergency.
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@luiscabral4852 Fessenheim has been taken offline. The cost of fully decommissioning it clearly will not be zero. Meanwhile no new nuclear generating power stations had been commissioned over the last few years, AFAIK, but please light my lantern if I am mistaken.
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devoutly to be wished; it might be swapped out for 'transitional'
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