Comments by "Peter" (@peter65zzfdfh) on "DW News" channel.

  1. It’s like they wanted Russia to know…
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  2. ⁠ @websitemartian  Meta deciding not to host RT is actually Meta exercising their right to free speech.
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  3.  @AnthonyCarroll-ue3uv Meta’s first amendment rights protect their decision to ban RT. It’s exactly free speech that lets a private company choose what information to host. Or do you think the first amendment only applies to you?
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  4. Germany “do you think they bought it?”
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  5.  @Ramazvousgames it’s their job to plan all hypotheticals. There’s no secret here.
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  6.  @diegoflores9237 yeah, mostly because of all the good weapons and vehicles the USA gave the Russians to fight them, which was generous of them given Russia started the war with Germany.
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  7.  @Bob-20-c9k except it isn’t coming from Canada, the US publishes stats on its origin an it’s like 0.02% from Canada. And it’s the US’s job to guard the US’s borders.
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  8.  @mechthildschoeberl4839 because he needed to fund them in order to get them to attack so he could get the excuse. He’s literally on camera dozens of times over many years promoting his policy of promoting hamas to keep Palestinians from having a state.
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  9.  @TheMightyAbs China has had military personnel and equipment in Cuba since 2019… China is busy attacking the Philippines in the Philippines. Like actual active attacks against a US ally. Not merely being a ‘presence’.
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  10.  @trumpforever6706 except that won’t happen because you have the most expensive groceries in the world, you’ll just shop at the next cheapest country instead. And the US exports the second most in the world after China, everyone loses a trade war, but the more you export, the more you lose. Also, good luck picking and harvesting that food without all your immigrants working for nearly free. You thought groceries were expensive before, wait until you have to grow them yourself.
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  11. The game changed many times, each one halted a Russian advance or made them withdraw supplies further back into Russia. If the game hadn’t changed there would be no more Ukraine. Just still existing against what was supposed to be the 2nd best military in the world is proof.
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  12.  @wilson705 the ROC technically is the government of mainland China. It’s just practically both are independent countries. What anyone claims is irrelevant generations have known nothing else, 88% of people in Taiwan support the status quo, and nearly half support full declared independence vs the current defacto independence. If it wasn’t for China’s aggressive bullying the declared independence support would be higher. But you can see from this video the threats for violent ‘unification’ are doing what they are designed to do. China lost the opportunity for any kind of peaceful unification after violating the one country two systems agreement they signed to get Hong Kong unified. No one who has lived in such a place when independent wants what to suffer what the people of Hong Kong have. All because of fragile leaders with fragile egos.
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  13. There’s more being supplied than they have lost aircraft total. No doubt they will not be used extremely aggressively but numbers aren’t really the problem. The problem is having enough clear runways to move them around as they’re most at risk on the ground. The F16 needs a much better runway than just about any other jet.
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  14.  @yellow01umrella why would Putin? Ultimately if you bow to threats you lose, as proving you can be threatened just leads to more threats.
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  15. Everyone expected the game to be over in days. Something keeps changing it, how else is Ukraine still in existence vs what was supposed to be the 2nd best military in the world?
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  16.  @1247.cccccc like 0.02% is via Canada…. It’s a non issue, much much more comes in the reverse direction. It’s an impossible request for them to do more, they’re already doing better than the US.
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  17.  @ghsense2626 by American free money you mean your pension is invested in Europe, as are most of the US’s biggest companies. That money is spent, if you want cents on the dollar for it, try and sell off that investment in a hurry. The US needs Canadian and Mexican car parts to keep factories operating, it needs Chinese steel, it needs Chinese lithium. It needs Taiwanese computer chips made with Dutch machines. Some of these could be replaced (not the lithium or rare earths) but not for a decade or two. In the meantime lots of pain while the rest of the world trades among itself. The US is the second biggest exporter after China, but most of the value the US exports is things like movies, TV, software etc, that aren’t really needs and easily replaced or cloned. The US is only wealthy because other countries have agreed to let it become so, because a strong US has benefited them too.
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  18. A bridge is military infrastructure. Russia shot down an actual passenger jet and has spent 2 years blowing drones and missiles into apartment blocks. Talking about how many missiles a bridge would take to destroy is just talk.
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  19.  @yasminesteinbauer8565 one might question if it’s something they actually wanted Russia to hear, to downplay likelihood and capability.
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  20. Yep, and even these days if they DO anticipate a ship this size they have to build an artificial island to support the pillars to make sure the ship runs into the ground before the bridge, or if that's not possible they just build a submerged tunnel instead. You can't build a bridge to take this kind of impact.
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  21. They'll likely get a settlement from the shippers insurance, but that could take years, in the mean time unblocking the funding so it gets rebuilt is going to save more tax dollars than it will cost. The government makes huge amounts in taxes from economic activity, government spending isn't like your spending, some things like bridges can make back more than they cost very quickly. Sad a man that old is sharper than the average commentator.
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  22.  @ikaustralia this isn’t any more ‘involved’ than they have publicly said. You’re delusional. They should be more involved.
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  23.  @santiagopayan2531 Russian government officials discuss on TV attacking NATO countries nightly. It’s not new. Talk is cheap.
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  24.  @omaralmeraya7222  The 'insane' amount of money sent to Ukraine wasn't money, it was nearly expired ordinance that would have cost money to dispose of, that was only sitting in stockpile in case of a Russian attack anyway. And the replacements being made for the countries that sent them are profiting the countries that are building them.
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  25. The last lesson taught courtesy of Western weapons and supplies and Soviet lives….
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  26. ⁠​⁠ @k00LGuY671 the GDP doesn’t make a difference if you have more people. Tariffs are a great way to tank your GDP. The US exported more oil under Biden than ever before. But US oil isn’t suitable for US refineries, which is why the US exports that and imports Canadian oil. A higher GDP means tariffs hurt much much more.
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  27.  @boxingsense3459 except they can export most of those elsewhere easily and then other countries can export to the US, Canada gets their exports without much loss in profit, the US has to pay much more. While the Canadian imports of US goods are largely luxuries they don’t need to buy at all.
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  28. The AGM-88 HARM is able to be used with the F16 exactly in a mission to destroy radars. I wouldn’t expect one piece of equipment to change everything but it’s another piece of the puzzle. It’s higher risk than other militaries are used to but it is capable once in the air.
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  29. The first amendment is exactly what allows a private company like Meta to choose what information they host. Without freedom of speech they would be compelled to host it.
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  30.  @patrickgz 2 strategists talking about strategy of Ukraine destroying the military target of a bridge built in Ukraine by an occupying attacker. The same bridge that they’ve attacked before.
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  31. Yeah, if they’d leaned they wouldn’t be discussing sending weapons to Ukraine, they’d already have sent them.
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  32.  @daveofyorkshire301  They're so far in debt they have already sold decades worth of their resources in advance effectively. In order to implement his plans they need to default on their debt. Defaulting on debt does the opposite of encouraging international investment, it turns you into North Korea.
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  33.  @willmunny9279 typically the aggressor is the one that invades the neighbor not the one protecting them. Also China and India have both said Ukraine must remain Ukrainian so… just because they don’t mind those cheap fuels you can no longer sell to the west, don’t mistake that for support. I will be eyeing off the parts of China Russia is occupying.
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  34. Because even Russia's version is insane. If they were telling the truth, it's still crazy that they would risk POWs by only giving 15 minutes notice and not waiting for confirmation it had been received. It's crazy they're this bad at lying that even if you believe them they're still the ones responsible.
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  35.  @BrotherLove187 you can’t even write in English. NATO cannot be left.
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  36. I suppose forgiveness will be easier than Ukrainians will forgive Putin. Crimean bridge is in Ukraine BTW. Up to Ukrainians if they want to remove the military infrastructure of the occupiers.
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  37.  @Изольда-з5м the war started by Germany and Russia agreeing to divide up Eastern Europe?
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  38.  @RicoWorldPeace the US is the second largest exporter after China, the whole world except them has accepted US goods in huge quantities. About to change it seems…. The debt is because of things like Trump’s tax cuts for the ultra wealthy. Not a lack of exports.
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  39.  @davidreidenberg9941 Hamas only still exists because Netanyahu propped them up to keep Palestinians divided. They’re a response to him, without him they wouldn’t exist.
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  40.  @diegoflores9237 Russia is also correctly afraid of a war with NATO. But Russia has proven they will not escalate, no matter what. NATO has just proven they are too slow to escalate.
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  41.  @natasa8266 neither is Iran but Russia is using Iranian drones against Ukraine. Russia downed US UAV’s, actually directly attacking them, and yet the USA and Russia are not at war. Talk, is not war either.
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  42.  @thealternativecontrarian9936 because it’s already strict and he’s lying. 0.02% of drugs sized by US border agents were coming across the Canadian border. And it’s the US’s job to do that, the Canadian government has the responsibility to stop all the drugs and immigrants leaving the US for Canada.
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  43. What's more they're all meeting that commitment this year, and Poland is beating the US by that measure.
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  44. Usually the conscientious objectors are anti war though, but these are pro war, as long as it’s not them doing the fighting.
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  45. You're looking at sped up footage. They stopped cars and trucks entering the bridge >2 minutes before impact, some were still travelling along it in that time, but if you slow the footage to real time it's still clear for a good minute or two.
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  46. They'll have the port open within weeks. The bridge may take years, and might be rebuilt as a tunnel instead.
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  47.  @butapioka  El Salvador had a crime issue, they just centralized the criminal behavior in the new president instead of gangs, and that helped a lot of people at the cost of sending a lot of potentially quite innocent people to prison and basically removing everyone's freedom. In such circumstances people will argue that safety and stability are more valuable than freedom, and people have fought forever on just how far society should be tilted towards freedom vs public safety. There are more people per capita in prison in El Salvador than any other country in the world. Ultimately this playbook has happened again and again throughout history, controlling leader comes to power promising to centralize control and fix everything, and for a time they're quite popular, but then they never give up control and progressively do less and less popular things while refusing to give up their power. Other than the crime crackdown the 'radical changes' promised in El Salvador didn't end up eventuating (he tried, on a relatively small scale and failed). He's been pretty boring and basically kept spending the same, no massive cuts, no massive spending. They've also been on the USD since 2001, so they didn't have to try and make that massive change under his watch.
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  48.  @bob-v5q all the processors used in every iPhone or modern Android phone in the world are made using EUV machines from the Netherlands. While the US has been making software easily stolen and copied, or banned with the stoke of a pen, the rest of the world has been making hardware. Most of those big US companies actually employ people all over the world and will be absolutely crippled by tariffs just trading between their own branches.
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  49.  @devansa125 fantasy. They’ve been having these conversations in public for 2 years there’s no reason two unelected people discussing made up scenarios changes anything.
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  50.  @davidesinigoi6254 if they wanted to avoid Armageddon they’d have sent the missiles a year ago. Every day they delay makes it more likely.
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