Comments by "Volker R. 🇩🇪" (@volkerr.) on "Econ Lessons" channel.

  1. Despots should never be bailed out. Especially when we’ve invested so much to corner them beforehand. 😅😊😜
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  2. Russia for more than 400 years has always conquered and Russified its neighbors. My wife is from Estonia. They know all about Russians.
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  3. Hi Mark. Regards from Germany 🇩🇪 and Estonia🇪🇪
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  4. My wife is Estonian. I know many Estonians with partly Russian family background. They all try to deny it. They even refuse their children to lern Russian. During Sowjet times Russians - though having bad manners and bad education - were ruling over Estonian people. After the collapse things have turned into the opposite. Estonia became independent again. Estonian people are like Germans once used to be. That’s why they have developed that good and that far. Russians in Estonia are often drug addicted and drunkards. Those who don’t want to adapt or are unable to do have to do the simple works. It’s somehow comparable to the Turkish in Germany. 🇩🇪🇪🇪🇺🇦👍
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  5. German 🇩🇪here. Putin used to be a KGB agent in Germany. He speaks German fluently. Back in 1989 when there were these huge protest marches in Leipzig that had brought down communism, armed German army men - their officers got orders from Russian authorities - were aside, waiting for the order to fire into the crowd. Like the Chinese did on Tiananmen square in Beijing. It’s said that Putin was very angry about that Moscow didn’t give the allowance to do it… So thanks to Gorbatschow history made its way. Putin and a majority of russkies are still a relict from that time. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like those relicts will disappear soon 😢
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  6. Same here in Estonia 🇪🇪 though I’m German I’m currently in Estonia. Here they’ve stopped all Energy Import from Russia almost immediately after Russian invasion into Ukraine. 😊 And it works. That’s why Russia has cut Estlink electricity cable between Finnland and Estonia.
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  7. Hi Mark. Kind regards, currently from Estonia 🇪🇪 😊
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  8. Hi Mark. All the best from southern Germany 🇩🇪🇺🇦🙄👍
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  9. Europe doesn’t need less USA - but more Europe 😊
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  10. Hi Mark. 😊all the best from Germany 🇩🇪👍
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  11. But they helped to get rid of Russians in Syria. 😊 and I’m sure they will help further on to make Russia small again. OK. Most certainly just because they want to become the new hegemon in that region themselves. 😅
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  12. Putin already in the early 1990s had the idea of making Russia become a military dictatorship. Like Pinochet in Chile was. So it shouldn’t have been a big surprise to no one that it came to that..
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  13. In 2008 it was France and Germany keeping Ukraine from becoming a Nato member…😮 Putin liked that (and has most certainly organized it..)😮
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  14. German 🇩🇪 here. Most of our big companies don’t think Trumps tariff politic will affect them much. First they already have built up factories and production capacities in USA. And second if there’s higher tariffs on Chinese goods, then German companies even profit relatively seen. 😊
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  15. sorcerer's apprentice. From German poet Goethe. The whole story reminds me to that. You were calling the spirits (Trump) to get rid of woke, left, green, DEI and whatever. But it turns out the side effects are worse than the treatment😢 Die Geister die ich rief, werd ich nicht mehr los..
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  16. In Germany we once sang that Song: „Heute gehört uns Deutschland und morgen die ganze Welt“. Russians are still the same 😢
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  17.  @barmalini so called Russian cheese is originally from Tilsit, formerly Kònigsberg. We still call it Tilsiter Käse. It was brought there by Dutch and Swiss Protestants some centuries ago already. 😂
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  18.  @michaelplatonov I‘m married with an Estonian woman. Before that I’ve met several Russian girls / women too. Even in Moscow. Some were already living in Germany. All of them were well educated and were seeking to leave Russia for a better life.
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  19. I’ve heard that many Russians took a loan in Chinese Renminbi because interest rates in Russia got too high. But now there’s a shortage of chines money in Russia and they can’t pay back their loans 😜
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  20. The truth about Russia is that they conquered all of their neighbors since more than 400 years. It’s the biggest still existing colonial empire of the world. 😢 regards from one of the victims😩- Estonia. 🇪🇪🇺🇦👍
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  21. The Forrest is shrinking but The trees keep voting the axe. Because the axe convinced the trees because of having a shaft made of wood it’s one of them. I’ve read that just yesterday here in YT
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  22.  @Infopirates and..? It’s kind of short term disruption. Markets will developers into another direction and after a while everything gets fine again. Just not in Russia 😂😂
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  23. I believe Angela Merkel 🇩🇪 was such a Russian sleeper 😢😩😳
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  24. Regards from Germany 🇩🇪. Is there a European plan for Russia too..?! 🤫 I guess there isn’t…😢
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  25. As I understand it’s much more problematic for Transnistria than for Moldova..?
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  26. Being neutral means to be for the aggressor.
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  27.  @pasiheinoja4569 unfortunately you’re right. A lot of Diesel sold in Europe is made from Russian oil..
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  28. German YouTuber Mark Reicher said it’s much about the Russian railway system and about to collapse it to win over them militarily. 😊 And that’s quite an interesting point to look at for sure 😎🇺🇦🇩🇪👍
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  29.  @EconLessons  every free man and every free woman should support Ukraine 👍🇺🇦
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  30. Baltic people say the same. I’m German and my wife is Estonian. 😊 the main reason is: if you weren’t Jewish or a communist, then life under German rule was not that bad.
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  31. 😅
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  32. In Germany we have several LNG terminals meanwhile. Most of them are almost not in use or if, then at a low level. Looks as if there’s no high demand for LNG gas at all.
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  33. If Russia doesn’t care about international LAW - so why should we? 😊 howl with the wolfs, just louder. If you understand what I mean 💪
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  34. Since the early 1990‘s I’ve met with a lot of eastern European women. Even Russian and Ukrainian ones. Especially the Russian ones didn’t like their male fellow countrymen. But they were all well educated and western oriented. 😊
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  35. I‘m in fact surprised that so few people see this. For me there is no doubt that Ukraine will prevail and Russia will fall 😊🇺🇦💪
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  36.  @canadiangirl826 we do have the same all over here in Europe 😅
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  37. That’s why he rely on North Korean troops. And I’m sure after those are ground down he will find other ones
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  38. Szia. As you might know as a Hungarian yourself, your ancestors were the same kind like the mongols. At least when they first arrived to Europe, way before the Mongols came…
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  39. In western Germany - during all of the Cold War period - we’ve got told we are the better ones, our system is superior and that capitalism is good and communism is bad. And though it was written in our Basic Law (kind of constitution) that the reunification of Germany is what we all should long for, we never thought that would come. But then suddenly a window of opportunities has opened 😊
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  40. Glad to hear. But why didn’t you leave the country then..? 😊 looks like you’re good in English and probably you’ve got good education too…
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  41. 2:21 in the 1980s Russia was already very active in Europe. Via east Germany (GDR) and their Stasi and Russian KGB. Most founders of the Green Party were communist, linked with GDR and they were all fans of Che Guevara and Mao. I’m not even sure whether they just amplified disharmony. I rather think they have brought that seed into our society. And since then the peace movement, Anti NPP movements - which led to Germany finally closing down all NPPs just recently - by the greens which are nowadays the strongest opponents against Russia (what a schizophrenia 😩) - and all that was growing on its own. For sure constantly surveilled and fueled by Russian and East German subtil influence. 😮
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  42. @Unitedwestand_2024exactly. So it’s up to those maybe 10-15 million „better“ off Russians, mainly from Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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  43. „Heute gehört uns Deutschland und morgen die ganze Welt.“ Back in the dark times during the 3. Reich this was a famous song in Germany. Russians still try to achieve that goal. 😢
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  44.  @sunflower9115 just because of Long term contracts. There’s other sources where to get it as well…
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  45. Hi Mark. Hope you had a peaceful Christmas. 😊
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  46. I suppose North Korea spends almost 100% on „defense“…
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  47. Every country gets the government it deserves. 😳 that’s the unfortunate truth. Trump didn’t fall out of heaven.
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  48.  @king_of_mushrooms they live from their own garden and for sure from small work here and there. Some black market deal and all such things
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  49. Hello USA.?! What about ceding parts of Alaska back to Russia..? Just to calm down an imperialistic aggressor..?! 🤔
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  50. If USA stops supporting Ukraine, then the American civil society has to fill that gap. Das wäre meine natürliche Reaktion auf das…
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