Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "DW News" channel.

  1. China doesn't even dare to attack Taiwan. Taiwan is smaller than most US states.
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  2. Russia won't be selling any oil and gas to Europe by the end of the year. ;-)
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  3. A man riding a bike who didn't have a gun was not a combatant. Let's stop the lying now, 50 kopeks army guy.
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  4.  @klord-is9ft  I can tell by your name and your post that you aren't getting any. ;-)
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  5. And there is the 50 kopeks troll who watches too many Hollywood movies. Wait... superhero movies are made in America. ;-)
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  6. German exports to China in 2022 were approx. $110 billion. Chinese exports to Germany were $152 billion. Germany lost a net of roughly $40 billion to China. I am not sure that Germany needs China nearly as much as China needs Germany.
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  7. Probably not with China. Did you see how many large cities they have? ;-)
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  8. I haven't seen a single Chinese vehicle on American streets, yet, even though I occasionally see a Mercedes, BMW or VW. Where are all these supposedly great Chinese cars? Still in China? ;-)
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  9.  @LunarMonarch-bc5eh  Dude, if China can make great cars, then they should bring them to the US. If they can't bring their cars to the US, then they are just not that great. ;-)
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  10. We are not afraid of any country to invoke article 5. We simply want everybody to pay their fair share. Some do, some don't. Germany in particular does not. It has to try at least twice as hard.
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  11. It tells you that there is a lot of shuffling going in inside the party, probably not for the better. China is the next Russia. ;-)
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  12. Americans have more than enough food. Not sure about the Russians, though. There may be hunger coming to Mother Russia, again.
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  13. Did you register that as a trademark? If not, then your brand won't survive. ;-)
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  14. Why should the US do that, exactly? The US is a nation of law. We do NOT condone acts of terror on us or our friends. Hamas has doomed the Palestinian people. Now they have to pay the price... whatever that price will be in the end.
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  15.  @ThisPartIsAndrew  I don't see any elements of communism in there. Russia is a capitalist, totalitarian kleptocracy. The scary part is that the head kleptocrat has lost his mind.
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  16.  @ThisPartIsAndrew  Russian billionaires, kid. :-)
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  17. There are plenty of things that aren't and they are far more important than Chinese toasters. ;-)
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  18.  @operator9858  Let me give you some more attention, kid. ;-)
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  19. China didn't export high value semiconductors in large quantities. They are mostly packaging.
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  20. Awh... look at you little loser nursing a revenge phantasy, already. So cute! ;-)
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  21. Dude, making ammunition creates lots and lots of really well paying jobs. European politics has gone mad with this austerity phantasy. One can not starve oneself rich. It has never worked and it isn't working now. Start the presses and Europe will be much better off in five years than it is now.
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  22.  @erickrobertson7089  One can't hide a military from satellites kid. Oh, wait, Russia doesn't have any working satellites. ;-)
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  23. Looks like that reluctance is coming to an end. I don't think the American military planners who are informed best about the situation in Ukraine are all that excited about it, though. Tanks didn't work for Russia. They are unlikely to work for Ukraine, either. They will be easy pray to Russian anti-tank weapons, just like Russian tanks were for those fired by the Ukrainians. The tank is dead. What Ukraine really needs are modern fighters and bombers and more air defense. That, however, is a really expensive proposition for a number of reasons, economic, strategic and tactical.
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  24. And there is the 50 kopeks army. ;-)
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  25. Let me give you some attention. ;-)
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  26. More brain farts by Putin and his henchmen, mostly.
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  27. No, it doesn't. Ukraine's future mostly depends on its leadership. They need to keep playing one of the smartest military stratagems on the battlefield that has ever been played. They have very few spare resources to cover for serious mistakes. If the fail to balance their resources correctly, Russia will either break through (less likely) or manage to freeze the war (more likely). They can't allow either to happen and so far they haven't.
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  28. Lock them up! Lock them up! Lock them up! :-)
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  29. There are historically relevant reasons why nobody wanted Germany to go too high on military spending. Remember what happened the last time they did that? ;-)
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  30.  @jonny2954  No, they didn't. Germany never had a professional army during he cold war. It was all conscripts with a small number of officers.
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  31.  @jonny2954  You clearly don't know anything about the Germany army during the cold war, kid. It was cannon fodder in a potential WW III scenario to buy the US and the USSR approx. one week to decide if they wanted to take the conflict nuclear. It was also entirely defensive in nature. Nobody expected 18 year old kids with four weeks of training to be an effective ground force. The German air force was largely symbolic with none of the advanced support that the US had. :-)
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  32.  @jonny2954  You really don't know anything about the Bundeswehr, kid. You sure have never been in the military, either. :-) Of the three months of "training" that you claim two months were equipment cleaning. An average Bundeswehr kid fired less than 500 shots in his entire military career, of which half were blue plastic training bullets. They didn't have money for more ammunition. :-) On the other hand I have seen three US soldiers at a shooting range bang a machine gun barrel to death all day long, emptying one crate of ammo after another. I went there to ask them what they were doing while the poor gun was cooling down. They said they had too much old ammo and that by regulation it had to be disposed of in an active training exercise. Now that was some good shootin'. :-)
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  33.  @alfiey5783  The law in China is created the same way as everywhere else: it's a monopoly of the state. The only difference is that the state organs are not legitimately elected by the people in China.
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  34.  @alfiey5783  All the difference in the world, I am afraid.
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  35. Lock them up! Lock them up! Lock them up! :-)
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  36. Putin just gave the US an additional trillion dollars in aerospace, defense and high-tech revenue. He most likely also created a million jobs around the world... just not in Russia, which is growing broke, right now. :-)
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  37. The main issues China has, right now, are youth unemployment, rising labor cost and an implosion of the construction industry. It needs to clean up its internal mess, first. :-)
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  38. The fighting won't stop. Ukraine's strategy works independently of the weather. Russia has nothing to resupply with. After Tokmak falls all supply lines to Crimea over land will be under Ukrainian fire control. Then all they have to do is to take out the Kerch bride and that will be the end of it.
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  39. Still much better than 20% youth unemployment in China. ;-)
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  40. That is not exactly what he said. What Musk's statements prove, for the most part, is that Twitter is still the ideal tool to destroy a man's reputation in 140 characters or less. :-)
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  41. Yes, because not printing money worked so well during the Great Depression. ;-)
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  42. Oil and gas are on their way out. Take a look at the electric car sales curve.
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  43.  @kaloyanrosenov2123  Yes, it's true that it's not true. ;-)
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  44.  @kaloyanrosenov2123  You just made that up. ;-)
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  45.  @kaloyanrosenov2123  They tell me not to listen to Russian trolls. ;-)
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