Comments by "" (@shamrock141) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. This is the most Wendover Productions video yet lol, not even a pandemic can stop this guy talking about planes
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  2. I'm not American so forgive my ignorance but it's insane to me how long the US Presidential Campaign talks last, it's like every election year it's nonstop news between the Democrats and Republicans campaigns. Here in the UK it was a big thing for maybe 4 weeks and then we all settled back into our collective political pessimism.
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  3. On the train back home, this is one hell of a pleasant surprise, you always bring the most interesting content
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  4. South Africa is one of the most beautiful countries that I had the privilege to grow up in, the people are vibrant and the views are diverse and breathtaking, but corruption has crippled the nation, wealth disparity is one of the worst in the world and the government is riddled with nepotism and backroom dealings. I honestly don't see it getting any better and it aches because it has the potential to be so much more
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  5. Oh man I'm going to need a snack to go with this, a full hour documentary, lets go
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  6. Ever since their trade war with Russia last year, I've been waiting for this video, show me the logistics!
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  7. I see this claim everywhere but there's always one answer to it. Ballots are counted first then once the ballots are done they start counting the mail in votes. Democrats tend to vote by mail while republicans vote in person so yes the shift makes perfect sense
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  8. Man these bots are getting out of hand
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  9. Lol
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  10. It's a YouTube channel, not National Geographic
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  11. 1. Yes of course people will fly the 737max all the companies will need to do is drop the ticket prices 2. The FAA has lost a lot of credibility because of this so their certification alone may not be enough to get the 737max flying globally again 3. Boeing is going to need to pull a miracle if they want to stay at the forefront of aviation. In the midst of airbus buying bombardier and marketing it's new A220, a chinese aircraft manufacturer building a new plance which would likely be immediately adopted by all chinese carriers and the recent fall in aviation travel due to the coronovirus this isn't a good time for Boeing
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  12. Yeah I've heard this rhetoric for nearly 2 years now and yet Ukraine by and large are holding their ground. Russia hasn't made any meaningful territory gains in over a year and is facing political and economic struggles This war is not over, not unless Putin relents
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  13. For all intents and purposes it's a country
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  14. Most US bases are in stable allied countries so I doubt that
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  15. Dude you're here too, fucking awesome
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  16. That sounds like the beginning of a dictatorship
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  17. Yes he did mention that, did you even watch the video
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  18. Is that a joke? Do you know how much of the US is just desert
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  19. When was the last time you saw tyrants voted out of office successfully
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  20. Crooked how
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  21.  @Bill_Woo  6% of cases which have had an outcome resulted in death not 0.0002%
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  22. Sounds like unfortunate timing
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  23. I'm pretty sure police openly firing on protests and riots would create a hell of a lot more "living in fear"
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  24.  @tech-hilfeportal6611  fox is literally the worst
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  25. Sewage from infected people will contain elements of Covid-19 therefore theoretically if you test a large sample of communal sewage from a town you can roughly work out how many people are infected judging by the concentration of COVID-19 in the sewage This will help let governments and hospitals know ahead of time what it is to come seeing as symptoms take up to 14 days to surface and this will grant the local government and hospitals time to prepare
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  26. Says the guy who can't spell out a sentence correctly
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  27. Because your propaganda doesn't belong here
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  28. They're banned weapons, it's a war crime to use them on people
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  29. It takes days for mothballed aircraft to be geared up for any sort of flight. There are countless maintenance and safety checks that need to happen
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  30. More like 10th
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  31. It's pretty awesome to be honest I don't have to waste hours of my time travelling I came have breakfast in britian, lunch in france and dinner in germany all in one day
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  32. Nice agenda commenting
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  33. Sorry I missed the part in international law school where it says if your neighbour wants to join a defensive alliance that gives you complete justification to invade it and try to topple its government
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  34. Well in 2019 there were 86 crashes involving large commercial aircraft so that we be about once every 4 days so he's right it happens
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  35. No, plants do not have a shortage of co2 in the atmosphere and the increased greenhouse effect would and had been negatively affecting many regions
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  36. Hopefully they do but I highly doubt that
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  37. The fuck hell no? China is just as bad as these corrupt leaders all they care about is China and chinese people they don't care about us
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  38. That's their rights at the end of the day
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  39. Isn't that why he said the future of short haul flights is likely to be electric
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  40. Governments are so damn good at claiming ownership of things after other people have gone to great pain and expense to uncover and it's pretty disgusting
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  41. Yes because that was the agreement that both parties signed, if the US opened fire the Taliban would have stormed the airport and killed every US serviceman there
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  42. All news is bias
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  43.  AT2T  vastly improved... I don't know what you've been smoking but I want some of that. Crimea's private industry has taken a serious downturn. IT industry has shrank significantly due to political instability and sanctions, maritime industry has shrank due to the difficulty of Russians acquiring visas in the EU, and small businesses area suffering from a lack of tourism in the wake of the invasion The only upturn is in government employment and that's simply Russia pumping money into Crimea as opposed to Crimea making money on their own So tell me again, how have things vastly improved
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  44.  @ForrbidenFist  when did sam say it's the US's fault for immigrants dying in the crossing
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  45.  @ForrbidenFist  I don't see that implication at all, it's stated that people do this because of the weak border strength and their desperation to leave Mexico
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  46. Yeah. I don't know why it's racist but not sexist seeing as males are higher risk. This is all just based on data
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  47. Ryanair doesn't operate in the US...
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  48. This video is 3 and half years old...
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  49. Well well well ain't this funny
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  50. Russia
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  51. You need to dial it back
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  52.  @cullenmitchell9165  and nobody has to be grateful to you
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  53.  @cullenmitchell9165  and I'm saying "you" as in the US just like you are using the royal "we" Nobody has to be grateful to you just like you don't have to listen to me
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  54. Dude he acknowledged the strong possibility of misinformation via the CCP but you can't make a factual video based on assumption
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  55. Not really, military command is extremely surprised at the speed at which the Taliban took over, why do you think there weren't more military assets on hand to evacuate
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  56. Ah yes because I remember Biden personally telling those Americans not to evacuate but to loiter about in an Afghanistan about to be turned over to the Taliban... Dumbass
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  57. did you actually listen to the video or are you taking the piss? He clearly stated that the RC's aid was more effective, as in it does more per dollar whilst the PRC's aid is less effective. It was never said that it serves no purpose that's your own bias talking
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  58.  @britshell  not at all. People think a 1% chance of dying is tiny but in actual fact if 1% of the human race died from covid it would kill over 75 million people which would make it the deadliest pandemic ever, and that's neglecting a lot of factors that increase COVID-19 deaths. Currently 6% of cases which have had am outcome resulted in death so this disease is far more serious than you think
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  59. How?
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  60. Look at the date video genius trump hadn't even been president for a month back then
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  61. You realise that military staff handle evacuation plans not presidents right?
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  62. It's totally Canada's waterway, no one objected when it was "useless" but now that it has the potential to save loads of money suddenly the US is challenging that and no doubt other countries will
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  63.  @HeavenlyWarrior  yeah yeah yeah you guys love throwing that buzzword around like it means anything
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  64. Do you know what the spanish flu was
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  65.  @muscovymapping8896  so I'd expect when you say "it's just like the flu" you wouldn't be so bold as to think the flu didn't kill tens of millions
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  66.  @muscovymapping8896  you've ventured so deep into conspiracy territory you don't even make sense
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  67. That's a pretty naive viewpoint
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  68. And how long does it take to become a US citizen from immigrant status?
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  69. You're joking right?
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  70. I wouldn't be so sure about that, one of the biggest keys to efficiency is high morale
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  71. ....no? Where'd you get that idea
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  72.  @elnorton7113  it's very different. Africa was used to extract and export resources while Hong Kong was used to establish trade in the region. The standard of living was very different then and now
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  73. Funny that, it's usually bullies that beat people up for refusing to follow their lead, except this time it's russia bombing cities because it wants its buffer state
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  74. Nobody cares about your medical advice
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  75. Easier said than done
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  76. No one said they didn't that still doesn't invalidate this topic
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  77.  @JusLivinAXA  why do you assume we're all western and why is it that being western invalidates their opinions. Your whole arguement is based on what you perceive people to believe without actually knowing them, hell this own channel has made a video about the US's power projection on the rest of the world
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  78. I bet profit would be the point uf our taxes were raised to compensate for this
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  79. Not necessarily, an airline isn't a very profitable business to begin with
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  80. ...are you joking?
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  81. The people there did have the chance to leave. There were flights going out for months but they didn't take them
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  82. If it was simple someone would have done it already
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  83.  @buisyman  what makes you think sam is fascist?
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  84.  @buisyman  sam is the narrator
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  85. That's not possible, how would you have blood of someone who never went to you?
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  86. Did you seriously link wikipedia for policitcal research purposes...
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  87. Are you blind?
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  88. Because we have vaccines for that
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  89. By every account Taiwan acts as an independent country
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  90. I find it interesting that you didn't actually address Sam's point, just threw a tantrum
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  91.  @scottanno8861  those evacuees are people who have a right to be evacuated because of their links to working against the Taliban. Being a woman in Taliban controlled Afghanistan is one thing, being someone who worked against the Taliban for years in Taliban controlled Afghanistan is quite another
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  92. So how would you explain the fact that 6% of cases that had an outcome resulted in death
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  93. A valid point but is it right to show said history in the form of valiant public works or should it be kept in books and museums? Most importantly though should communities have the right to vote on whether to keep or remove their local public works like statues
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  94. How do you propose then to fetch them, since they are beyond the airport in Taliban controlled Afghanistan
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  95.  @dankestvonmemen76288  The evacuation date was written down, all those Americans had MONTHS to get out of Afghanistan or into a military controlled area and they didn't. The Trump administration made the pull out deal and supported it, and only now when there's fame to gain is trump criticising it after the fact
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  96.  @dankestvonmemen76288  one man having his flight cancelled twice does not explain why hundreds, thousands did not flee when they should have. When you're a citizen of a nation that has occupied Afghanistan for 20 years and the enemy is about to take control you do not dither about while they move to take control, you get tf out of dodge. There were months worth of flights, roads were still open there was plenty of time for them to leave but they didn't expect the Taliban to takeover so completely, so quickly and it would be psychotic to send what little soldiers remained on a suicide mission to get them
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  97.  @imulippo5245  you think democracy is the perfect system for that? So countries like China where there are social credit scores that determine whether or not you can use basic services and only one political party to remain in power, or North Korea that has a full on Emperor that rules through birthright and you think western democracies where presidents have limited power and serving time are the best systems for abuse Whatever you're smoking, I want some of that
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  98. I'm calling it now, that link is a Rick Roll
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  99. Would you say the same thing about clinton and the republicans?
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  100. I never realised just how massive some submarines are, the ingenuity it must take to desgin these machines is incredible
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  101. What kind of bullshit is this? No we have not "abandoned" the census we are seeking alternatives to it that would cost us less seeing as the current census is projected to cost over 900 million pounds
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  102. Taiwan is a prime example of aggressive chinese expansionism. The CCP won't even let taiwan be recognised even though they're so obviously another nation
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  103. You've got the wrong video
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  104. What do you mean? How has he done that here?
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  105. And who's gonna ban them exactly?
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  106. Your bias is showing
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  107.  @林北干林北  my point is you clearly have a pro-China bias given your prerequisite to attack American, European and Indian nations. Also what double standards are in this video, Sam is clearly laying out the policitcal landscape not attacking anyone in it
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  108.  @robertchen4673  I disagree slightly. What we do in peace determines our strength in war which is why countries as powerful as the US, Russia and China still need a large array of trade and allies for that is what determines their success and thus their strength. Globalised nations with many allies will stand the test of time whilst isolationist nations will wither away
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  109.  @robertchen4673  fair enough
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  110. That's a big resume that basically says nothing. BRICS isn't making a new currency, they're just streamlining their current ones to maintain economic self-sufficiency. Half the members don't even get along
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  111. Not entirely, all aircraft's lifetime is calculated in cycles, the numbers of flights it does from take off to landing. Buying a used plane inheretantly means that you are buying a plane that will perform hundreds if not thousands of flights fewer than a new one
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  112.  @warrenash5370  if you believe that so much as mentioning climate change, something you just admitted to be real, is propaganda then you're either thick as brick or trying to be as sensational as mainstream media
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  113. The WMO monitors climate change, to call it fake is just stupid, it's already a fact
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  114. What are you talking about? That tissue is engineered
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  115.  @youngz13o  oh so you call people who protest against your viewpoint traitors, that's very typical
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  116. The biggest way to be a dick to another country is to tell them their worries are all imaginary, don't do that
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  117.  @golfsierra577  Russian military doctrine doesn't include huge convey backups, getting their tanks and military vehicles hijacked and masses of their troops surrendering. Any which way you look at this, this war is far more costly for them than they expected And what does alleged HR violations have to do with a logistics video
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  118. There's your bias as well
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  119.  @Alex14Wolf  you're a hypocrite 🤣
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  120.  @Alex14Wolf  wrong again, I'm not a leftist and interesting how you deflect by trying to attack other people instead of actually addressing your bias
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  121. Yes, tarmac is correct
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  122. Believe me it wasn't, it's bad now yes, but Apartheid for black people was worse
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  123. Stupid bots
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  124. Acting on your data is the key
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  125. Well for 1. it was pretty damn hard to do a mass shooting with a musket that required an extensive reload after every shot where as now we've got semi automatics and automatics with 30 round magazines And for 2. yes knife crimes exist but the figures are clear (atleast comparing the UK to the US), fewer people die from knife crime and gun crime when there's gun restriction than knife and gun crime when there isn't any restriction. No plan is bullet proof but this has the figures to support it And for 3. yes we have banned knives. Go to a large concert in the UK, go on a plane, go to a bustling tourist site and you'll find that knives aren't allowed in most cases
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  126.  @jordansmith4040  1. yes but there wasn't a war on terror in the 1960s, there wasn't the widespread mainstream media outlets and social media accessible to every single person that could completely televise such events. Mass shootings rose not just because there were more guns, but because there was more news coverage and because these sick gunmen knew that they could idolise themselves 2. What constitutes a solution to you? 0% gun deaths and 0% knife deaths because that just won't happen, we're always going to live in a society where a very small portion will try and go gun ho and innocent people. We can lessen that problem by investing in education, mental health, stop them from having dangerous weapons and tons of policies but we'll never have anything fool proof, what we do have though is statistics and even if America is willing to pay the price for that sense of freedom in having a firearm not every country is. I want just as much as you for shootings and stabbings to stop, I just have a difference of opinion on how we get as close to that reality as possible
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  127. If the members of NATO are to contribute more then it makes sense that the US should give them a bigger stake in how it is run
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  128. Still think it's a hoax?
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  129. Thank god they do i can't imagine having to always use SAA on every domestic flight
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  130. Actually generals run military run military operations, that never changes
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  131. Elaborate then
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  132. I'm pretty sure they'd be doing negotiations like that with countries like the US, India and others behind closed doors but I doubt anything would change unless something drastic happened
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  133. The situation in Texas is primarily due to gas freezing in the pipes which makes them unusable to generate electricity or power the water systems. It's natural gas power stations that failed
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  134. Because the government is supposed to act in the best interests of the people. Killing protestors, even if they are violent, is not the best course of action
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  135.  @Ray_Shabaz  during Charlottesville only 8 people were arrested and all those people were attacking police
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  136.  @Ray_Shabaz  a good point, I just don't see how the police can reasonably intervene more so than they do now without coming across as authoritarian, especially given their current reputation
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  137.  @Andrewsky347  he proposed a solution, so why do you resort to childishness instead of addressing his solution
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  138. Yeah yeah yeah we've heard you spout Nazi ever since you invaded, desperately trying to cling to your own righteous morality
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  139. Electricity can production can, and is in the process of, being changed. A combustion engine can never change
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  140.  @CrustyCurmudgeon  I disagree, renewable energy production as a percentage of net production has more than doubled in the past 15, years from roughly 9.5% in 2006 to it now being about 20.5% in 2021. With other countries improving and switching to renewable energy sources it's clear it can be done and with efficiencies improving year by year it's not as you would call a pipedream However that said I do agree that nuclear is a great alternative to coal and natural gas with the US being the best country in the world in terms of the infrastructure to support nuclear energy so hopefully that will be invested in if plausible One thing is certain, coal will by phased out as a means of energy production in the near (probably within the next hundred years) future. Natural gas will probably still remain relevant to substitute energy production when wind and solar aren't collecting but renewables are only growing in prevalence. National and international communities have an increasing demand for renewable energy production and any democratically elected government will have to follow that demand. It can and most likely will be done
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  141. Subsidies are part and parcel of the business. A local government may give a local airport incentive to bring in Ryanair as it will improve tourism and trade in their local area. Ryanair and others don't get money for nothing, there's always mutual benefits to be had
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  142. Pretty sure the most accurate description is they attacked each other
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  143. I'd say more people across the world actually want to migrate to Europe. In my experiance Europe is a lot more cosmopolitan than the US
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  144. True but new pilots and flight attendants need experience, they need flight hours and budget airlines can deliver. Plus the experience isn't terrible, you've gotten what you paid for, a seat on a flight
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  145.  @michaelc3051  all true but unless government comes out with laws regarding that treatment nothing will change. Most people want as cheap a flight as possible and that's always gonna take a lot off labour costs as those are usually the highest expenses in a business. Unless we get a severe pilot/flight attendant shortage or government intervention it's unlikely to change. It's like coming out of university, no one wants to pay you for your degree because you have no experience, so you do the dirty work and then hopscotch to a place that will pay for your experience down the road
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  146.  @Fred_uyz  typical that you have a victim complex
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  147.  @Fred_uyz  I see you neglected to mention that the only civilian who died in that riot was a counterprotester
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  148.  @Fred_uyz  you stated the counterprotesters initiated the violence and almost every single person hurt afterwards was from the right yet you neglect to mention the only civilian casualty was a counterprotestor and that the protestors brought weapons including rifles with them which clearly shows prediction of violance, also last time I checked there were several videos of protestors and counterprotestors alike instigating violence so your whole premise that the counter protestors werebillegalyl initiating violence is frankly bullshit Additionally whataboutism is an effective arguement when presented with a hypocritical claim such as yours. You claim the right was the victim here, even though they carried weapons, engaged with riot police, fought with counterprotestors, killed one them in a car hit etc. There is no distinguishment between protestors and counter protestors in terms of actions at this rally hence your claim is hypocritical
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  149.  @Fred_uyz  yes violence and injury erupted from both sides resulting in terrible consequences but in my eyes neither were innocent. I can't in good faith defend the actions of the counterprotestors but I know that the original protestors were just as violent
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  150. That's politics. Some of those sanctions are well reasoned
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  151. Yes, what are they supposed to do?
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  152. That completely neglects operating costs and the basics of business theory: supply and demand
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  153. Yes he would
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  154.  @stevek6636  yes because he always see a 20 year trained force surrender to the enemy in a matter of days as opposed to months, I don't envy anyone who was stuck with the responsibility of handling that shit show
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  155.  @stevek6636  if you ordered a package off Amazon and it arrived damaged is that Jeff Bezos's personal failure? No it's not, there's a chain of command here. Blaming Biden solely for this is like solely Bush for 9/11, it's politically motivated and ignores the larger issue. This was an intelligence, communication and coordination failure. Another problem is you seem to think there was an army left when the evacuation kicked into overdrive, the only thing that was left was a skeleton crew guarding the military section of the airport, they didn't have anyone left to go fetch stranded Americans. Allied command did not expect the Afghan forces to be so ineffective and the Taliban so organised as I have already said and without an army what on Earth were they to do. If they knew the scope of this do you honestly think they wouldn't have ordered all Americans out of the country ahead of time?
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  156. It's not that simple
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  157. He already said that's a factor
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  158. My guy you can't be serious
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  159.  @diogor420  you are correct, and this is a free YouTube video, hardly worth the outrage since it's a barely noticeable error
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  160. Likely there's no Arabic person on the wendover team who can translate
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  161. Lol you're tripping
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  162. ...
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  163. They're not, but is the US does nothing it will only hurt itself
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  164.  @robotputty  if mexico continues in its8cyrrent state or deteriorates further, it's only going to worsen the situation at the border, but more importantly it's going to keep the cartels in power which are going to keep shipping huge quantities of drugs across the border. Perhaps it would better to lend assistance like the US is doing now but on a bigger scale
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  165. Not likely, the US has dozens of other trade partners, Russia has been cut off from thirty, they're going to hurt more
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  166.  @АвгустАвгустовский-б8ф  he wasn't talking about Ukraine
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  167.  @aromo4800  it never fully recovered because it didn't "go back to normal" instead everything changed. Passengers were strictly screened before flights, dozens of new protocols were put in place, tons of new taxes were introduced on airlines for safety
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  168. Oh yeah that really worked out for Syria
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  169. Not just an American viewpoint, but a European one, Ukrainian one, Australian one and Japanese one and for good reason
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  170. The war against the west or the war perpetrated by the west, how much do you preach about being targeted yet America hasn't had it's borders invaded in over 200 years. This is why we are feared and hated, because we go to other nations that do not want us, pulling out of Afghanistan was the right choice
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  171. How so? Australia has always had neutral relations with both countries
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  172. As bad as a profit motivator can be it's also the best motivator for efficiency and innovation
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  173.  @nothanksthough  it is but no system is perfect. Nationalization often results in complacency where resources and funding are not used in the most effective manner, that would result in high levels wastage. It also is tied with corruption as government funding is a lot easier to steal than that of private enterprises, this results in money being embezzled out of the funding which is even worse
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  174. Fuel is only cheap because of the Saudi-Russian oil trade war and covid. Sooner or later we're going to need electric planes
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  175.  @appa609  for commercial passenger jet aircraft yes absolutely, but as for prop aircraft the technology for that is already catching up. Perhaps one day replacements for aircraft like the Dash-8, King Air and Cessna Caravans will be electric. Whatever it is fuel will become less used or replaced entirely
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  176. Well this aged like milk
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  177. Most of those bases were set up right after WW2...
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  178. Mate you're not fooling anyone. Everyone knows these sanctions will hurt Russia more than the west
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  179. Bullshit, a day pass costed $15 more or less in the 80s, today a Vail day pass costs $175 It is vastly more expensive
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  180. It is very real and very dangerous
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  181.  @Terence.McKenna  racist much?
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  182.  @kenmarriott5772  greenhouses are controlled environments, to compare them to the atmosphere is naive and misinformed. the atmosphere has CO2, methane, CDCs and a full manner of other gases contributing to climate change. If you think 1000ppm of CO2 is ideal then you're terribly wrong The global temperature has consistently risen at an astonishing rate since the Industrial Revolution and it is not natural, humanity has done in decades what would take Earth millennia and the records show it, that's not a matter of debate it's a fact. This is causing severe weather conditions and climate change to many regions causing natural disasters and a scarcity of certain resources Also I would like to see your link to the IPCC report
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  183.  @kenmarriott5772  link it
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  184. Yes it would
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  185. Government built the roads that allowed the car to become successful in the first place, without it the car would never have become a feasible means of transport
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  186. How many people can you kill with a fire extinguisher?
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  187. That sounds like the introduction to a dictatorship
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  188. Did you switch off autoplay?
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  189. Semi-automatic firearms with detachable magazines
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  190. ​ @jpgranat  just a conversion error, hardly qualifies as "so many mistakes"
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  191. Tesla has an 8 year or 150,000 mile warranty on their batteries, where are you getting your one year claim from?
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  192. To be honest I think his model is a great idea. Long distance trains in the US is a terrible idea since it's such a vast country that when choosing to go somewhere 99% of people would hop on a car (or maybe bus) for short tennis range routes or jump on a plane for long distance ones Trains are slower than planes yet don't offer the freedom cars do and on top of that their ticket prices aren't the best either
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  193. Yeah no I'd rather spend more time with my grandparents than tell them to roll over and die because darwinism or some shit like that
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  194. In terms of population it is
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  195.  @loot6  china isn't the largest country in the world by land mass so he was obviously referring to population, especially since it's linked to his point about food production and importation
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  196.  @loot6  look man I don't know what to tell you, eveyone knows Russia is the largest country in the world in terms of land mass and China in terms of population, you're not telling anyone anything they don't already know and everyone knows what Sam's talking about. If you want your "ah ha gotcha" moment so bad fine but it's not going to change anything. Goodbye
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  197.  @loot6  https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/largest-countries-in-the-world Top search result. Please note that the article mentions largest measured by area or population and ranks China as highest for the latter which proves my point and there's your answer
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  198.  @loot6  6th paragraph down, right before the table
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  199.  @loot6  no one measures size by gdp, the world you're looking for is wealth. The article clearly states that size can also be measured by population, of which China is number one. I've given you the reason sam said what he said and the evidence to back it up. I have no interest in continuing a pointless conversation about technicalities. I wish you a good day and goodbye
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  200. Do yourself a favour and look at a population graph
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  201. They chose to stay, it was believed that the Afghan government would have held Kabul
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  202. Who tf believes everything America says, have you ever been to an American mainstream media comments section
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  203.  @unboundboundarie211  I'm not talking about the democrats Vs republicans thing. Everytime there's a headline about Syria, Iran, Afghanistan or really any hotzone there's tons of rants in the comments section about American interventionism More importantly who are you talking about when you say the "majority" are you talking about just Americans or everyone in the world or what?
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  204.  @unboundboundarie211  well firstly I disagree with your opinion that most people living in the Anglo Saxon sphere or the west blindly listen to America's take on China. America's aggressive foreign policy is a huge topic of scrutiny here Secondly you're also judging people living in the west with common cultures, political systems, languages and economic systems for being more trusting of their political allies than of the East and the East does the exact same thing in the opposite direction "Brainwashing" has just become the hot button word to describe a group or individual of different political beliefs
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  205. Bruh...
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  206. Doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't teleport dozens of cargo planes from side of the world to another
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  207. What very real possibility is there that the Australian government will open fire on its citizens, what do you have to support that claim?
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  208. Show your research then if you're calling it fact
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  209. The fact that you won't dignify this video by watching just proves your own minority. If you're not even willing to listen to the other side of the coin then you're not really fit to decide policy
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  210. Decimate: Kill, destroy or remove a large proportion of
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  211.  @jakekaywell5972  that's the secondary description
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  212.  @benito1620  no one's under false pretences, but people can see that Russia is not unstoppable, not unbeatable. NATO is watching
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  213. Interesting that you say "China is trying to help" when it's clear they're buying support yet when Australia does it you say it's "selfish" Clear double standard in your opinion
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  214. Where'd you get that number?
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  215. Funny how the "left" in your mind consists of the entire scientific community that either shows that it's not the left just the experts that shows climate change or it is the left and the right is thick as shit because they don't have any scientists
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  216.  AT2T  oh I wonder why, it couldn't have had anything to do with Russia annexing Crimea could it...
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  217.  AT2T  oh yeah they must love it there, so much so that Russia has kept a strong active military presence in Crimea ever since it invaded Here's a tip as well, if you have to invade and occupy a territory for 8 years, chances are you're not the majority
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  218. Yeah the taxes for driving in London centre are astronomical. Much better to just take the tube
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  219. Relishing in the thought of killing people if they dare try to do a Covid lockdown back in 2020 or gun reform is probably why gun reform is happening
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  220. Probably nothing, they're probably flying it to maintain customer loyalty
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  221. Decades to come? How?
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  222. You're blind
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  223. Agreed, US presidents don't have nearly as much power as people seem to think. This was a war that was effected by 4 different presidents and their varying policies. Politicians who invaded 20 years ago are just as responsible for this as the politicians who signed and pulled out now
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  224. Are you blind? "Gross incompetence" has been thrown around by everyone and their dog over the past few weeks
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  225. You know there are scams right? People who get tricked into taking a pair of shoes or something with them to the US only for those shoes to have drugs in them. Your "law" would result in the deaths of hundreds of civilians
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  226. Yes it does
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  227. That is all largely negligible. The full plane of business class travelers will make the airline substantially more money than a full plane of economy travellers
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  228. If the Soviet Union, a state with complete power, encompassing half of Europe and Asia couldn't build a decent airliner in the 70 years it existed, what makes you think the smaller, less powerful Russian federation can
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  229.  @johnjonson9126  firstly you're wrong about Aeroflot being the first to use commercial jets. The first commercial jetliner was the de Havilland Comet, made its maiden voyage in 1949 and its first commercial flight in 1952 for the BOAC. Aeroflot only started using jetliners in 1956 Secondly Putin clearly placed an importance on Russian nationalism amidst the animosity with the west and the retaliation to the Crimea invasion and subsequent occupation and yet no Russian aircraft manufacturer has come out with a decent aircraft in the 8 years since said occupation. Before that the USSR desperately tried to compete with western commercial jets and failed more and more as the years went on. Simply put Russia doesn't have the industry power to manufacture commercially viable, safe jetliners, if they could they would have done it already Thirdly you act as if Russia has happily done business with Boeing and Airbus without a care in the world for their own manufactured aircraft, if you think so that's either willful ignorance or naivety. Putin has tried to make a domestic aircraft manufacturer work, but Russia simply doesn't have the means to do it, unless you're planning on going back to turboprops for your domestic flights. This is going to cut both ways, Russia will lose far more than it will gain by stealing hundreds of aircraft from the two biggest manufacturers on the globe. It's economy has already taken a enormous hit from worldwide retaliation due to the Ukrainian invasion
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  230.  @johnjonson9126  oh yes because commercial aviation was created in a Russian cave and the west took credit. Aeroflot and de Havilland published their records genius, there are short films made about the comet when it came out in 1949
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  231. Right you are and it certainly doesn't. Charity always comes with strings attached
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  232.  @luisacuna4326  funny how you think presidents control the logistical planning and executions of thousands of military operations
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  233.  @LapisPebble  do you honestly think Biden was told that American were going to be left behind before the shit hit the fan? Do you honestly think military command expected the Taliban to take over so quickly? Of course they didn't know, they had no clue how completely ineffective the Afghan defence force was, and how organised the Taliban were. Hell look at all those stranded Americans and collaborators. They had months to get out of Afghanistan ahead of the evacuation, but they stayed no doubt thinking it would take the Taliban far longer to seize Afghanistan
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  234. Pre Covid the avaition industry was undergoing rapid expansion. Pilots, engineers, ATC controllers, mechanics were all in short supply the industry desperately needed more workers. If you think simply switching to electric will have them all out of a job then you're badly mistaken
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  235. Didn't you hear? Kabul was under Taliban control they physically cannot send US troops into Kabul or beyond to fetch people, it's a death sentence
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  236. The guy at 8:40 is literally carrying a rifle
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  237.  @biggy1168  The definition of assault weapon according to federal and state law refers to primarily semi-automatic rifles, pistols and shotguns that are able to accept detachable magazines and possess one or more other features https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_weapon Hence yes an AR-15 definitely fits the description of an assault weapon. I suggest you know what you're talking about before opening opening your mouth
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  238. ....he already did what's your point
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  239. Yes damage control that is precisely the point so that we can save lives now and in the future
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  240. Why do you assume this all about America?
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  241. They did say that, they just said it was less probable than someone with symptoms
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  242. Russia borders many countries but the US and Canada have the longest single border
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  243.  @faithF8  no but that's what he meant no doubt
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  244.  @faithF8  fair enough
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  245. The average age of a Tesla owner is 54 years old genius
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  246.  @ryansgale22  you said that "all of the hipster millenials are going to have their hearts broken when reality settles in" so you attribute owing a Tesla to be being a young, naive hipster that doesn't know how the world works, how a young naive hipster is supposed to afford a 38 000 thousand dollar car I don't know why you'd think that. Fact is most Tesla drivers are are older middle age men who've already had their careers so perhaps you should do some research into why they buy them since you've completely missed the mark with the demographic that buys them
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  247.  @ryansgale22  then stop talking like the only people interested in Teslas are hipster millenials because that's incorrect
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  248. It was a difficult situation, the British Embassy was surrounded by police in Libya, if the Libyan Embassy was stormed it would be likely that the British Embassy would likewise be stormed and burnt down, its diplomats executed or held hostage
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  249. Additionally the A-320neo which was the direct competitor of the B-737max will get and is like already getting far more orders as a result of the max's failure
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  250. The UN would have a field day, China would lose
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  251. @Random Person and why would you think that?
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  252. That makes no sense whatsoever
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  253. Well you take significantly less per capita than many European countries
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  254.  @danbrookman8176  1. I'm not European 2. The standard of living is higher countries like germany and sweden with huge influxes of immigrants and refugees than america so it looks fine
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  255. If I recall correctly half the country's politicians promote cars while the other half promote public transport
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  256. Yes, tarmac is the correct word
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  257. Lack of quality assurance
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  258. Yeah, Putin is psychopath intent on recreating a soviet union style buffer state with a puppet in charge
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  259. Yes, there's plenty of nations that can supply that, it'll be more expensive but it's more than survivable
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  260.  @ZontarDow  I don't think anyone in military command expected such a swift Taliban takeover, I don't envy anyone who was stuck with that job
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  261.  @ZontarDow  who knows, this is all classified after all, nobody wants to be stuck holding this shit storm. But it seems to have been an almost complete shock from what I've been told
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  262.  @ZontarDow  and I don't buy those "leaks" full of "anonymous" sources. If the top knew the full scope they would have had more assets on hand to evacuate, they would brought in more cargo aircraft. The top obviously didn't expect the Taliban to take over so quickly
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  263.  @ZontarDow  the general public always fears everything. Remember when that Iranian general was assassinated, everyone was saying trump was about to start WW3
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  264. What are you on about, 5% if Delta's pilots are female
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  265. So who would you have sent to their deaths to rally up scattered citizens in a hostile nation
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  266.  @nickjones2896  sounds like you fucked up mate, check to make sure you've got your stuff together before you head to the airport and get there early
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  267. So you want free content for nothing
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  268.  @seigeengine  the concept of online video is that it would be available to everyone, not "freely available" And yeah it's their channel they completely have the right to market themselves especially since they're losing what little revenue the platform provides from your ad blocks At the end of the day you're in no position to make demands of someone to provide a service for you when you do absolutely nothing in return
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  269. Ironic, seeing as you're being a hypocrite too
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  270. Gotta love the airplanes, it's practically mandatory for a handover productions video 🤣
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  271. That would be a seperate video wouldn't it
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  272. I swear you guys will call anything leftist shilling kalamay
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  273. Too expensive for too little an effect
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  274. Ah yes all those thousand immigrants in a country of 300 million, they'll make a huge difference
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  275. Why? That makes no sense? If they knew they would have moved up the evacuation efforts, they were quite obviously blindsided
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  276. Well yeah how is the military supposed to help them, it would have been a death sentence to venture beyond the airport
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  277. That sounds like a dictatorship
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  278. Yeah they were, hell they called the riot "unite the right"
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  279. Short term immunity provides long term resistance
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  280.  @BrianHan0110  you can understand people's distaste for the CCP government right now though, the virus wasn't even confirmed by the CCP until atleast 2 weeks after the first diagnoses
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  281. Actually death rates are being underreported as government medical facilities are reporting many COVID-19 deaths as death by pneumonia when in actual fact the pneumonia was caused by COVID-19
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  282.  @mexico4027  really last time I checked the US didn't lock you up for not supporting one political party
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  283. Yeah remember the spanish flu
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  284.  @britshell  are you serious, COVID-19 hasn't infected 7.5 billion people britshell it's infected only 18.6 million. Of those 18.6 million 12.5 million have recovered and 701,000 have died, which puts COVID-19's current death rate at 6% Furthermore if we just let the disease run rampant without any precautions hospitals will be overloaded and patients won't be able to receive proper treatment which will bolster the death rate. We can disagree on how many precautions need to be taken but there is no denying that this disease could be the deadliest in human history if we did nothing
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  285.  @britshell  the key difference here however is that those plagues were not nearly as contagious and the world wasn't as developed as it is now. What could have taken a plague months to travel from continent to continent took days with COVID-19 thanks to air travel. What makes COVID-19 dangerous is it's incredibly high contagoisness where as SARS-COV-1 had a much higher fatality rate but much lower contagoisness and thus it was stopped before killing even 1,000 people. Same with Ebola, a disease with a very high fatality rate, but bot as contagious and thankfully emerged in a rural area that could be quarentined
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  286.  @britshell  I've already said to you the flu is quite deadly e.g the spanish flu which killed millions additionally the reason those plagues and flu don't kill millions of people per year is primarily because we have vaccinations against, of which we don't have for COVID-19. The flu already kills hundreds of thousands per year and this is primarily in the poor regions of Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia where medicine is scarce and most people are not vaccinated Until we can find a safe, proven vaccine for COVID-19 precautions, light or strict depending on the severity, will need to be taken. I'd rather my grandparents stay alive Herd immunity would also work but that would mean we will need a slow spread of the virus so as not to overwhelm the hospitals and medical centres which means we'll still have to take precautions so we can minimise deaths
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  287. There's a difference between aid and loans and the PRC practises both
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  288. Electricity production can, and is in the process of, being changed. Combustion engines cannot be changed
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  289. Nope you're still just wrong
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  290. The abandonment of Bagram was part of the signed agreement for evacuation with the Taliban
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