Comments by "Taxi Rob" (@taxirob2248) on "RealLifeLore" channel.

  1. so they've annexed the bottom of the sea?
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  2.  @peterfireflylund  to say they were "being treated bad" is highly subjective at best. You're leaving out the War Of The Worlds-style "attack" that roused the German public opinion on the side of the invasion, an attack that was just as fictitious as that famous Orson Welles radio broadcast.
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  3. 1:55 no American troops would be used to secure Gaza at all... except there are already American troops manning air defense batteries on the ground in Israel, doesn't that count?
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  4. If Libya had a functioning government, they would have released the water before it undermined the dams. Thanks, Obama.
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  5. you're oversimplifying the issue with the port project
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  6.  @jamesamos6565  I figured that out eventually, but to post your comment without that context might lead one to believe you were talking about the Trump shooter. I mean, I could HEAR a 5.56 in the original shooting video so that was confusing. It would have had to have been a WASR 3, not a WASR 10.
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  7.  @poorsvids4738  they put ethnic Russians in those territories to run everything during the imperial and soviet eras. That's why Transnistria is the way it is, it's an example of that strategy on the far side of Ukraine from actual Russian land.
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  8.  @ЕвгенийХромов-б2и  Nope. Turkey has NATO nukes for a reason.
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  9.  @johncrocker4209  you people are all talk. You lost the civil war, get over it.
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  10. General Chang
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  11. YouTube is American media, bro.
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  12.  @mitchellsanders2784  Everything east of I-5 is poop
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  13.  @Apistoleon  Turkey's army is irrelevant in a contest with Russia because of NATO Article 5. I don't think Turkey would have an easy time with the Russians one on one either, assuming they were only focusing on Turkey and not Ukraine and Georgia at the same time. Russia isn't trying to destroy the latter two, they are trying to subjugate them. War with Turkey would be total.
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  14.  @garciagonzalvez5509 so when are you shipping out to the front?
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  15. Gee, if only the US had managed to strike a peace deal with Afghanistan's neighbors... It's almost like Obama actually did ONE smart thing that Trump decided to throw in the toilet just so he could get even with him for ONE joke he told at the White House correspondents' dinner. Also, the US decided to isolate the Taliban at the expense of every Afghan citizen's well being. A decent economy would prevent all those people from starving to death at least, sharia law notwithstanding.
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  16. You're right but we could still tweak the efficiency of trains by electrifying our cargo lines  @bepamungkas  . Powered by a greener mix of renewables and fission power generation, they could go close enough to carbon neutral to meet most generally accepted government and international guidelines for the term.
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  17.  @peterfireflylund  ok Adolf
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  18.  @RFDN0  the absolute fastest growing cities are in Florida or Texas, reflecting retiree migration. Actual working people aren't having as big of an impact, and there are no cities experiencing triple digit growth according to the US Census.
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  19.  @johncrocker4209  well then maybe instead of griping about Atlanta politics, do something about it. The biggest problem in this country is apathy of otherwise thoughtful people. And it's easy to criticize, but much harder to advocate for solutions. ATL is too big for its own good, I'm not going to argue with that, but it's also the main revenue center for the entire state.
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  20.  @johncrocker4209  then the people you vote for aren't getting it done. Keep trying though.
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  21. The US should take over all of Israel, as well as the occupied territories, allow right of return and let them figure it all out in a truly democratic process where Israeli Jews don't have the preferred status that they do today. The biggest problem is what was shown in the Gallup polls that you quoted: not the actual question in the polls, but the shift in sentiment that comes directly from Zionist propaganda within Israel and the Jewish diaspora. Everyone was willing to ignore the blockade that had been in effect since 2008 just as Americans have ignored the stolen election of 2000. Normalization of lawlessness and disregard of of reality is circling the entire globe, but most alarmingly in so-called "democracies."
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  22.  @mudra5114  France should cancel the CFA, see how they deal with not having a currency in Africa. How are they going to pay Wagner?
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  23.  @mudra5114 and DR never forgave Haiti to this day. They won't even take Haiti's territory if it was given to them because they literally want all of Haiti to die.
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  24.  @mudra5114  they basically have a pan African currency already in circulation, but they don't even realize what they're doing with it. And they're not liberating anyone from France, they're just replacing the colonial structure with a domestic authoritarian regime.
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  25.  @kaizenyasou6963  no one said it wasn't. But the West has other job opportunities, whereas being a tool of state violence is the best economic choice for many people in lower income countries.
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  26.  @kaizenyasou6963  it's pretty obvious when everyone else is poor and the military never goes hungry. It's also a great place for people who can't make it through university. I'm just making observations though, never claimed to be an expert as you are implying about yourself. Have you ever considered f*cking yourself? I highly recommend it.
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  27.  @xXMegaToastXx  will they ever conclude the obvious?
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  28.  @EarthlingNews  and the rest of the country has tornados and hurricanes every year
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  29.  @arshanirudh2275  BBC, Al Jazeera and TVP do, but even then you can see their biases.
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  30.  @ЕвгенийХромов-б2и  Russia respects no one. Turkey is just too broke to be the major player that it wants to be. Check out their inflation rate, they're doing slightly worse than Venezuela while every other NATO country is recovering from the pandemic just fine. Only Syria and Argentina are doing worse.
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  31.  @mweskamppp  but there is also no strong central government to maintain discipline- like the government that actually BUILT the dams in the first place. Evacuation AND early release of the reservoirs may have been in order, depending on when those options were undertaken, you're not wrong about that probably being necessary as well.
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  32. The difference between Ukraine and the former Yugoslavian states is that Ukraine's borders haven't moved for over half a century. The ethnic Russians there were put there by the USSR. Serbia, Bosnia etc had an opportunity to redraw their borders when they became brand new states, and they didn't do that in a sensible manner. What they need to do now are quid pro quo land swaps, and consolidate their ethnic bases. As long as everyone agrees to it, then it wouldn't be "ethnic cleansing."
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  33. So was Hungary  @milostomic8539 . I'm making a comparison with two other MODERN states. Unless you think Serbia should give up Vojvodina...
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  34. I think they do. The referendum in Donbas wasn't legal because it was administered by Russia, and it was held AFTER a lot of Ukrainian loyalists had fled due to Russian-backed terrorism  @milostomic8539 . It's the same thing they did in Crimea, none of it was legal or even remotely ethical. And don't forget that Russia AGREED to the legally recognized borders in 1991, now they want to backpedal 30 years later? If they hold a legit referendum in the Kosovo territory and the majority want to secede, then fine. The small amount of territory in dispute was ALREADY majority Serb, that's another huge difference with Donbas. They could jointly administer the referendum or each do their own, they would still likely get the same result.
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  35. What I really think isn't doom and gloom like this video but they could create a viable framework for other countries to do this peacefully  @milostomic8539 . African countries need this too, maybe central Asian states as well.
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  36. ​ @traiforse  Trump talks out both sides of his mouth. He ended the Iran nuke deal just to spite Obama even though it was meeting its objectives, then he illegally assassinated an Iranian general which got a bunch of our soldiers killed in a retaliatory strike, and he handed Afghanistan to the Taliban before Biden even took office. Now he doesn't want to protect Ukraine or Palestine, he's cut off USAID which was a great tool for soft power in the same nations that China is courting. He's 100% full of shit on foreign policy.
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  37.  @titom3t12  he dropped the ball on Russia too. Romney clowned him over it.
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  38.  @ItsLunaRegina  you can't pretend those motivations didn't exist, Adolf.
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  39. trains good, short term profits bad  @bepamungkas 
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  40. Chechnya is what happens when a child runs a country.
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  41.  @Atillathepun  desalination isn't that terrible of an idea. You could power it by solar and you'd only be desalinating the water from the canal and putting it back in the lake, then discharging the brine into the sea. I mean, you could draw in sea water if you wanted to, but you might not even have to.
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  42. they can't let the salt get into the lake, it will spoil the water for wildlife and drinking  @Joel-s1c6d  . It necessarily needs to flow in one direction only.
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  43.  @mikeyo1O1  because the whole system is designed to work off of gravity to begin with. There aren't pumps so much as there are valves, the water pressure is mostly from gravity not a mechanical pump. Therefore the water always flows in one direction regardless of which way the ship passes and whichever order of lock opening and closing is used.
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  44.  @WarPigstheHun  I don't understand the energy argument when it's that close to the equator and solar power exists. Or they could, you know, build ONE fission plant to power the whole country. There are less than 5 million people in the whole thing.
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  45. That still only saves part of the water @zysofup3246 . People want to hear about magical solutions that fix everything at once or they won't vote for you.
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  46. Funny how Russia grovels to China while they are openly claiming their land
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  47. spoiler alert: the 2023 counteroffensive failed because they didn't have the appropriate weaponry for it, and the amount of time that Russia has had to dig in has made it exponentially more difficult to get around their fixed defenses. It's pretty much ALL the fault of Republicans in the US: since WHEN do they shy away from foreign wars? Oh yeah, I forgot, they only complain when Democrats do a foreign policy flex.
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  48.  @perttiroska9970  no need to trust you, Russia can't match the combined forces of Europe and North America. They certainly can't defend a front that long, and the further they move from their production centers the harder it will be to resupply. They STILL can't even finish off Ukraine right next door.
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  49. 33:03 good thing African swallows are non-migratory
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  50. So, we're making up reasons to deport migrants to torture prisons without due process, but we bring known cartel members to the US to stand trial so we can pay for them to live in our prisons in relative comfort? Make that make sense.
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  51.  @dallon507  it must be lonely being a fulltime asshole. Do you have any other "hobbies?" Should we check your HDD for CP?
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  52. Green energy has nothing to do with lithium. It's another extraction product that doesn't move the needle one way or the other. Green energy is about generation, not storage. And we're still not doing enough to clean up the grid in general, though some countries are doing it better than others.
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  53. Ukraine withdrew from Kursk at just the right time to avoid a rout. Almost like they wanted Russia to waste their time building up a for huge counteroffensive....
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  54.  @anousenic  it's a war of attrition, it has been from the beginning. Russia has more of everything, but can they really afford to keep the war going as long as Ukraine can afford to drag it out?
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  55. If your employer is in NYC, and are allowed to work from home, and NYC is not your home, then you're going to move back to where your home is and take your salary with you. I see out of state license plates all over the midwest because people are moving wherever they find affordable and livable communities, and doing their jobs from a virtual office. This is a good thing IMO, it will keep rust belt cities from disappearing completely.
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  56.  @RFDN0  they're not going to be massive. We're talking about a half million people (assuming they all left for the same reasons) distributed across all 49 other states, and some may have even left the country. But what they bring to those other communities is an upper middle class income to support local businesses, so the more the merrier.
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  57.  @RFDN0  what industries are those? Texas has always been strong in defense, yet the people who run the state have taken an anti-war stance just to "own the libs." The new Tesla factories aren't even close to the claimed capacity.
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  58.  @RFDN0  did you come up with anything?
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  59. It's a type of self-loathing from those who (rightfully) criticize Western colonialism. And on that point, to paraphrase Jeff Lebowski: they're not wrong, they're just assholes. So they look to China, India, Russia or whoever for some other budding superpower they can rally behind and feel better about, even though they all do the same nefarious shit.
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  60. So giving US ships a discount would violate neutrality, but accepting billions in development funds centered around trade and the movement of goods specifically from China, while simultaneously severing ties with Taiwan does not? Okay. Explain to me how the canal can remain neutral when the government of Panama clearly is not.
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  61. @ I don't think the guy in charge cares about any of that
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  62.  @noone6896  if you're supporting Russia, no one cares. Zero concern here for illegal invaders fighting for Lebensraum.
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  63.  @ებრაელივაჭარი  you're oversimplifying the issue with the port as well. Two of the TBC bank's founders were charged with money laundering and the American investors pulled out. No money, no project. Good luck with the Chinese, pretty gross to partner with a country doing genocide on indigenous people.
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  64. Isn't it crazy that the border patrol can catch all those migrants, but none of those gun smugglers?
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  65.  @johncrocker4209  sounds like you like the politics a lot, including the prevailing notions about other races when your ancestors were allegedly dragged there against their will.
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  66. what the hell are you even talking about?
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  67.  @jamesamos6565  When you post a comment it helps if you include a timestamp for the part of the video you're commenting on
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  68. The momentum is on Russia's side? What's that, a 1% territory gain?
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  69. 24:48 the US can declare fentanyl and/or meth to be chemical warfare agents, and so Article 51 would apply.
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  70. What I want to know is what army they are so afraid of that they are worried about controlling mountain passes? Seems like they have a military that is technologically advanced enough that marching routes shouldn't matter very much. They're not the goddamned Roman Legion.
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  71.  @sergeykish  and the only NATO nukes are in Turkey, Turkey absolutely wants them there, and they've been there for half a century. Turkey thus forces Russia to treat them as a peer. Strong defense actually enables trade with strategic competitors.
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