Comments by "Grenade Tennis" (@hughjass1044) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1.  @jamesavilez9504  Well, there is no shortage of those kinds of employers too but they tend to be different from the ones who expect the stars from their applicants. At least in my experience.
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  2. What a complete farce! Negotiating anything with Iran is a total waste of time. They're going to do whatever they want regardless of what some silly bit of paper says. They'll never live up to any terms they don't like and to be honest, we most likely won't either. Iran is a nuclear state.... or soon will be; so what? Russia, China, Pakistan and North Korea are all nuclear states too and we've found ways to cope. What's the big deal with Iran?
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  3.  @jimsmith4658  The government wasn't "democratically elected", it was a bunch of Russian puppet stooges installed with massive amounts of Russian interference. And even if it was, who cares? Hitler was democratically elected too. And if this "western propaganda bothers you, then don't watch it. See if anyone cares!
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  4.  @pogo1140  You completely misunderstood what I said. SMH!
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  5.  @vladimirschmidt7080  I think that both I and the rest of the world have heard just about enough of this red herring called the Minsk Agreement and we've also had quite enough of paid trolls and Putin's posterior kissers like you. FOAD!
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  6. Denmark is experiencing similar problems. This should (but won't) once again demonstrate the lie of super ultra efficient Scandinavia. Just keep shoveling money at people with not checks and balances and this is what happens. It doesn't matter whether or not it's immigrants or native born, if people don't have to work, they won't.
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  7. The enviro-nuts will find some way to derail all of this. They won't be happy until we're all living in caves and gathering berries.
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  8. Maybe you should fix your own writing before picking other people's apart.
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  9. America fucks up everything it touches and bankrupts itself doing so, then gets sent packing with its tail between its legs. China walks right in...... Seems about right.
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  10.  Anacott Steel  So I see.
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  11.  @yannickille4049  Nope. You?
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  12. Re-surging? In other words, rising steadily and rapidly in popularity? Well, let's un-pack this a bit and see if we can figure it out, shall we? If the "far" right, or the "far" left or the "far" anything is re-surging in Germany, or anywhere else for that matter, it's a pretty fair assumption that the "center"; however the hell that's defined these days, is failing or else they wouldn't be losing popularity. If you take a quick glance around the western world, and even parts of the eastern world as well, you'll see that this is a trend that's growing and if there's a truly unfortunate thing about it, it's that the "center" consistently and reliably reacts to this in exactly the wrong way by doubling and tripling down on the very things that are pissing people off and causing them to lose support. There's an old saying - "Take care of the reasonable and you'll never have to worry about the radical." Define reasonable and radical in each instance, to your own liking but the general premise holds.
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  13. The answer to both questions at the end is a firm YES! Every penny of foreign held Russian money should be seized and confiscated along with every asset of an oligarch that we can lay our hands on. We should use this and take full opportunity to rebuild Ukraine into a prosperous and vibrant state right under Russia's nose. If this results in other rogue states not holding their wealth in dollars, so be it. It's their loss, not ours. As for the oligarchs, every dollar they have represents a dollar stolen from the Russian state and the Russian people so I have no qualms whatsoever about "stealing" it back. At the same time, we should make clear to the Russian people that we're prepared to do the exact same thing for them once the current governing clique is locked into cages or dead. We have an tremendous opportunity to both liberalize Ukraine and incentivize the Russian people into dispensing with the criminals who are holding them down. Maybe the thought of finally being able to live in a normal country and join the civilized world will spur them to action.
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  14. The problem with guys like Maduro, as mentioned in the video, is that they don't have just one enemy, they have hundreds if not thousands. It's not just Uncle Sam, it's every person or group of people he pissed off that could represent a threat to him. The US giving him amnesty only means they won't prosecute him. It doesn't mean he's safe from all the innumerable others who might want his scalp. He goes to Dubai and he's no longer got his own loyalists and security services around him and is instead reliant upon those of the host country to protect him from any bad actor who may show up to rub him out. And that's not even accounting for the multitudes of accomplices he's got in Venezuela who'd lose power along with him and as such, be more or less cut loose to fend for themselves. Regimes like this are never just one man as they often seem. They're hundreds of men.
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  15. It's been clear to me since shortly after the war started that Russia would win because the "West" was and still is, wracked with indecision, disunity, doubt and fear. Putin knew this before he even started. He knew the west didn't have the resolve to stand by Ukraine and we proved him right. And I love how this whole mess is now all of a sudden, very conveniently all Trump's fault when for three entire goddam years, the west dragged its feet, hummed and hawed and fretted about every pathetic little day-late-and-dollar-short half measure they bothered to send the Ukrainians. This f**king war would never have even started if NATO had shown some unity, some teeth, some spine and some goddam balls but even failing that, if they'd shown anything like a will to fight or even stand together, it would've been over in mere weeks. Yes, Trump is a putz, but they ALL knew this and they ALL knew he had a good chance of returning and had ample opportunity to settle the matter the right way before he could come along and f**k it up the wrong way. They FAILED!! The Biden administration failed, NATO failed, Europe failed, everyone f**king failed!! So don't cry now. You all had your chance.
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  16. Putin will never see the inside of either a court room nor a jail cell. If things go that bad for him, he'll either hole up in some other country or more likely, end up dead.
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  17. On Sept 11, 2001, terrorists killed 3000 Americans. In response, the US launched a full scale war. Fentanyl causes a 9/11 every 10 days and the US does nothing.
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  18.  @dougcoombes8497  Everything you said about Russian capacity; especially in the last six months is true. Unfortunately, none of it matters. You're making the same mistake everyone else is making. You're thinking like a westerner and rationalizing things in the same way. You CAN'T do that! You have to see this thing as Putin sees it. Putin will send wave after wave after wave of fresh bodies into the furnace with nothing more than uniforms if he has to, and he'll keep doing it as long as he can get away with it. He also has something like 6000 old tank hulls scattered about... and as I said; rusted out, 60 year old pieces of junk, but they can still make the Ukrainians use up munitions and that's all they need to do. Yes, I'm being overly pessimistic and it's deliberate but it's to counter the endless drone of voices proclaiming Russia dead in the water when they're nothing of the kind. Putin has backed himself into a corner. He's long since passed the point of no return. He CAN'T quit now, even if he wanted to. He also can't prevail against a NATO backed Ukraine so his only hope is to keep up this endless grind, grind, grind until he wears down western resolve and that's exactly what he's going to do. I pray daily that I'm wrong but a lifetime in uniform has taught me that as long as your enemy draws breath, he can, and WILL, draw your blood. Some enemies you can force to sue for peace. Others are in way too deep and have to be destroyed. Putin's Russia is the latter.
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  19. No. No, they could not.
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  20. Putin always viewed this war as a battle of wills between him and the west. He wagered, quite correctly it seems, that if he dragged things out long enough, the west would lose interest and move on to other things.
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  21. I suppose I might give more credibility to Macron if his messaging were a little more consistent and a lot less haphazard and all over the map. One minute, Putin's his pal and now he's the devil? He wants to confront Putin's army in Ukraine but ran away from Putin's militia in Africa? Anyway, I think this scheme would have worked a helluva lot better if it had encompassed the entirety of NATO and commenced in the summer and fall of 2021 when Putin was assembling and staging his forces.... for "exercises".... remember that?... instead of now. Show a bit of muscle... and some balls.... early on and you likely don't even get a war in the first place. But alas, no. We all chose the terrified puppy approach of diving under the bed, screaming about "ESCALATION!!" like old Granny Scholz, and hoping it would all just go away. Well it hasn't. And 2+ years later, here we are. And we've gotten our escalation anyway.
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  22. Any city/country that bids for an Olympics now deserves very much to get them. And they'll also deserve what happens because of it.
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  23. Trump is a deceitful, corrupt, thieving, lying cheat! Which puts him in great company in politics. He's a natural fit. Makes you wonder why he waited until he was nearly 70 to get into the game.
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  24. I have to admit to being a bit puzzled by what their end game is. What is the whole operation meant to accomplish? If they were moving against significant military targets, I could understand it but apart from those bridges, they don't appear to be doing that. I hope they don't think that Putin gives a damn about his civilians. I've said for a year and a half that they'd be far better advised to send small, highly specialized teams deep into Russia to sabotage and destroy vital infrastructure like rail bridges, ammo stores, pipelines, power plants, that sort of thing. I think they'd get way more bang for the buck.
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  25.  @baronvonslambert  Oh, OK. I didn't know that. Glad to hear of it. Thanks for the info.
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  26. Putin cares about Putin and nothing else. Always has, always will.
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  27. Ya think so, do ya? You think it's just that simple? You think all this shit would end just that quickly and easily? What do you think his followers would do? You think they wouldn't be clueing in to all the same stuff talked about here or that all the snide little remarks like yours wouldn't come out, and that they'd come after the ones making them? What do you think would come after him? Can you really be that idiotically stupid to think an event like that would lead to anything good?
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  28. Here, there, everywhere. Maybe even.... under your chair!!
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  29. @@a.m.4148 What do you mean, I forgot? I'm not listing the man's accomplishments or his failings, I'm simply describing the power dynamic. I'm neither condoning him or condemning him.
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  30.  @Sparx632  1. I'm not making anything up. I'm speaking from experience. 2. You ARE saying all right wingers are racists and only care about money and God. 3. Don't give me this crap about "caring" for people. Well over 2/3 of the politically motivated deaths in the last century were at the hands of communists so you can lose the God complex and get off your f*cking high horse! The only thing socialists and socialism ever brought anyone was misery and suffering on a colossal scale.
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  31.  @kaym7704  OK, just so I have this straight..... 100% of all people who are called racists are in fact, racists. That's what you're saying?
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  32. Nice bit of UN propaganda. They pay you well for it? The UN is the organization that oversaw the massacres in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and Somalia. It is an organization so top heavy with bureaucrats it can't even make a decision on a basic question of self defense on a weekend and so corrupt that it makes the IOC look like angels in comparison. I'm a veteran of 3 UN missions. In each case, the country has either gone back to the decrepit state it was in before the UN got there or is even worse. It has NOT brought peace to Palestine, to Kashmir, to Cyprus or to anywhere else. The only thing that eventually brought some kind of peace to Yugoslavia was the US military after the UN f*cked the place up. The next UN peacekeeping "success" will be the first. They're beyond useless!
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  33.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  Thanks, MB. Yes it was sarcasm and also a comment on the sorry state of our society overall and where our priorities are. It's often necessary to come right out and tell people straight up that you're being sarcastic but even then it doesn't always work. I've had people go ballistic over something I wrote and even after I've told them point blank that I'm trolling them; sometimes two or three times, they still don't catch on.
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  34.  @ligametis  Don't know much about history, do you? The state security apparatus in Czarist Russia dates back to the 17th century and was massive. It's how they kept order in the conquered lands. Just because the last couple of Czars were lazy, incompetent fools doesn't change that.
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  35.  @THEROOT1111  I have substantially more than half a brain.... enough to tell me I'm wasting my time arguing with a troll. Sayonara!
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  36. Bexar = behr (or "bear" if you like), not becks-ar.
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  37. There is a certain strain of thought that I've heard several analysts put out that the US, Europe and others want to see Putin, his cronies and certain others severely punished but they do not want the Russian state to collapse because this would present an irresistible target for China. Makes some degree of sense, I suppose.
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  38. Universities jack up their rates without hesitation or worry because the government money machine keeps giving students whatever they need. So how is making it all free going to drive down the cost? Same with Medicare for all with medical costs. You signal that you're going to cover all costs regardless and you remove whatever slim incentive there was to keeping costs down. Tuitions and drug prices will skyrocket and why not? The government will pay whatever you charge. You want to see prices come down? Remove ALL government funding, subsidies and everything else and make the bastards compete. When they no longer have the government teat to suckle on and they actually have to compete for students, you'll damned soon see a big change in rates!
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  39. #4 is the ONLY viable option. And every single person in all the NATO capitals knows this, even if some would like to pretend otherwise. Beijing is watching.
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  40. I really believe that if I hear the phrase "escalate the war" one more f*cking time, I'm either going to scream or hunt down the person who said it and wring their goddam neck! This is nothing but the worst form of wanton, craven cowardice. You know who has not an ounce of fear about escalation? Putin, that's who, and we are the reason why. We have shown him exactly zilch to be afraid of. There have been what, 200, 300 thousand casualties so far and something close to a trillion dollars in damages to say nothing of the millions of lives turned upside down and the enormous cost and strain put on already stretched western governments and all because we in the west utterly failed to so much as even lift a finger to prevent this war. Putin was marshalling troops and equipment and conducting training at least 6 months prior to this thing, right out in the open for all to see, not the least bit concerned about who saw it all or knew about it and what did we do? Sat on our fat asses with dumb looks on our faces! If we had matched him troop for troop and tank for tank, right on Ukrainian soil, started stationing naval task forces in the Black and Baltic Seas and repositioning strategic air assets to Europe and Turkey as well as ballistic missile submarines to the Med and the Arctic and let it be known we'd have exactly zero hesitation to use any or all of them and if Putin didn't like it, he could damned well do something about it.... if we had done even half of that PLUS the sanctions... this war does NOT happen! But we did NONE of that and to make matters worse, we've dumped the whole responsibility onto Ukraine's lap while giving them penny packets of equipment... just barely enough for them to not lose and even then, only after months of begging and pleading. For the love of almighty God; start pouring firepower and if necessary, personnel into that theater of war and END this f*cking thing NOW!!
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  41.  @bachelor3846  Yeah.... it's always the west's fault isn't it? Everything always is. It's so much easier to blame someone else than face up to your own failings. Not much wonder nothing good ever comes there.
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  42.  @ShubhamMishrabro  Vietnam is already a de facto US ally. Their biggest enemy is China.
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  43.  @2KSnSLifestyle  Several countries in Eastern Europe, and within the ECM, are at a geographic disadvantage to China which is half a world away? I'd ask what world you live in but I'm afraid you'd tell me.
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  44. Great news!
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  45. And while all of this is happening, Europe is doing what? Sitting back and looking on like a bunch of clueless zombies!
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  46. So Merkel's nervous is she? Well she should be 'cause they're going to be going to see her, cap in hand, the way every other basket case has since well... ever.
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  47. Anyone concerned about Ukraine's future with Trump back in the game had better remember a few things.... *Any void created by the US stepping back is wide open and welcoming for Europe and/or other players to step into. The US is your partner, not your mother and they're not the only member of NATO. or the only one with money and weapons. *When Trump is sworn in for the 2nd time, the war will have been going on for 1 month short of 3 years. All throughout that time, Europe and the Biden administration dithered and dallied and dicked around, day-late-and-dollar-shorted Ukraine, tied its hands when it tried to fight all while fussing and fretting about "escalation" which Putin very obviously had no qualms about whatsoever. In short, the western alliance; if it had 1/10th as much backbone as it does mouth, could have stopped this war in its tracks ages ago and very likely could have prevented it altogether. So don't start crying now when someone else comes along and does things his way. You all had your chance.
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  48. Not a single ounce of sympathy for SF or anyone in it. They brought all of this on themselves. Going back decades, there were warnings from countless sources, over and over again, about what the result of their politics was going to be and not only were the warnings not heeded, the ones doing the warning were attacked and denigrated. So suck on it, SF! From afar, it all looks bloody wonderful on you! You all built this out of control dumpster fire while smearing and insulting the countless people who tried to warn you and also offer solutions. So you can all damned well burn in it!
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  49. OK, a few things need to be straightened out here if we're all to be on the same page and if truth; real truth, is going to prevail - 1) The election absolutely was stolen. The proof is literally everywhere. 2) The Q Anon theory is NOT a lie, it's real. Again, the evidence is all around us. 3) Pizzagate was a real thing except the guy who raided the pizzeria in DC got the wrong one. The real one was across the street hanging from a crane. 4) Seth Rich was murdered to keep him silent but his killer was actually Kim Jong-un who was in town to case the joint out for a nuke strike. He was disguised as Joe Biden but Rich found him out so they had to knock him off. 5) Hillary Clinton actually is a reptilian but she was thrown out of the reptilian community because she wouldn't stop yapping about deplorables. 6) Chem trails are a real thing but it's only Air Force One that spreads them. 7) 9/11 didn't happen on 9/11. It happened 3 days earlier but was covered up by the media. 8) I am NOT the Lizard King! I am. 9) Joe Biden actually died two years ago. What you're seeing is really a hologram. And Kamala Harris is NOT the VP. That's actually Hillary Clinton. (She will NOT be denied, guys!) Bet you didn't know makeup artists could be that skilled. 10) Proof for all of this in Lin Wood's bunker in Maine and that is actually the Kraken that Sidney Powell refers to. It will all be revealed once a permanent host for Jeopardy is chosen. Be vigilant guys; they're out there!
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  50.  @diroval  You should know, you're holding it. Don't play dumb with me, monsieur. And quit trying to deny the world is round!
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