Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Good Times Bad Times" channel.

Yup. Middlestadt are where the German economy is. It’s funny how most people are totally unaware of this reality in the German industrial and manufacturing sector.
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Look at their claims about Pantsir S1. Invincible, impenetrable. Israelis and Turks: ha ha ha
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@Apsoy Pike The US has more small businesses and middle-sized companies just by sheer volume and being such an economic behemoth, with a more friendly business environment than Germany overall. Germany's politics are better for business in some ways because regional politicians are beholden to their Middlestadt, but in practice a lot of this works out similarly. In the US, it's easier to fire non-performers unless they're in a union. In Germany and Northern Europe, you don't hire employees. You adopt them. This subject really requires a more in-depth analysis and exposition, because it is quite literally the life blood of the US and Germany.
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Brutal truth...
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Russia has had university professors promoting their foreign policy in US academia for generations, under the guise of détente and peace (as long as it fits Russian demands). They should be fired and sent to live in Russia if they have such strong convictions.
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These security threats will fracture the EU, not unify it. Words of unity vs turning off Russian gas are two different things. Russia has Germany bent over the barrel.
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It was brutal.
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Brutal truth...
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@StumpyDaPaladin There were 31 wars, revolutions, and revolts between 1871 and 1914. Definitely not anything resembling a long peace. Might want to brush up on that period.
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@michaelrenper796 Sorry, I subtractively hybridized it with English, but applied the German plural in the English sentence, not that Americans are concerned about grammar! Ha
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The only 50 year period of peace in European history was when security decisions were made in Washington D.C. as a check against Moscow’s aggression and lust for more European territory. The US has shown consistent disinterest in Europe since 1992, with all 8 Presidential campaigns since then focusing on US domestic problems, and foreign policy as an afterthought.
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@CaptainAricDeron Trump urged the underperforming NATO partners to get their defense budgets up because of regional security threats, and the sentiment of Americans for decades of, "Why are we still paying hundreds of billions of dollars every year to do what Europe should really be doing for themselves?" It's not a Trump thing. The past 8 Presidential campaigns from 1992-2020 have had either no foreign policy, or a policy of withdrawal. All have been domestic-focused. In truth, many Eastern Euro nations were already ramping up defense spending, including Finland and Poland because they understand the reality of the threat. Germany has let its military atrophy for decades, to the extent that it has hindered partner nations from enjoying long-overdue upgrades to things like the Typhoon. Typhoon should have had AESA 10 years ago. Kuwaitis have it, but every time they go to fund it, Germany backed down. UK has put billions into their Typhoon upgrade program, but CAPTOR-E was supposed to be a multinational affair with volume discount acquisition. That's just one example. The state of German armor, air transports, missiles, infantry, helicopters, and logistics have been neglected.
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@Kgfhsfmhfs333. 11 years ago Russia caused a migration of 400,000 Karelian refugees from their homeland in Karelia into what are now the current borders of Finland. If 400,000 Karelians were forced out of their homes, how is it possible for Finland to commit a genocide against Russians? Karelia was emptied of its people, as Viipuri was the 4th largest city of Finland. Any story that paints the Russians as victims of that era is so terribly biased, as to be dismissed.
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@masterofreality926 Swedish Empire occupied Finland up until 1809, and Sweden wasn’t particularly kind to Finland. Swedish Catholics and nobles stole the land from Finns, ruled Finland with Swedish as the imposed official language, and conscripted Finns to fight their wars. Finland longed for independence from Sweden, as they were always seen as oppressors who had no right to be there. After the Finnish War between Sweden and Russia ended in 1809, Finland became a Grand Duchy of Russia, given fairly autonomous self-governance. The Russians tried to Russify Finland, but it never worked.
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@Kgfhsfmhfs333. 11 years ago What city/town were these located? I've been all through that region many times. If 400,000 Karelians left, who materialized in their place into a war zone?
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@Kgfhsfmhfs333. 11 years ago You never knew that Russia committed war crimes in Poland and Germany? How old are you and what region do you live in?
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All of the Eastern European nations plus Finland have very clear memories of the horrors of Russian aggression and deportation of ethnic peoples from the past.
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@StumpyDaPaladin Spain, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Herzegovina, Russia, Turks, Macedonia, and Greeks all had wars and uprisings even before the turn of the century. There were 18 wars, revolutions, and uprisings between 1900 and the 1914 Great War.
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Here's what Trump did to Russia: Authorized the decimation of the Russian/Syrian battle group composed of 2 battalions, armor, artillery, engineers, and special forces, when they attacked US SOF and Kurdish forces over the Euphrates. 6 hours of JDAMs and Xcalibur were dropped on those Russians. Throttled-up US shale oil extraction and distribution, which made the US energy independent for the first time since 1972, taking oil down to $40/barrel, and putting extreme strain on Russia's economy. Sent Javelin ATGMs to Ukraine, along with training how to employ them. The media claims about Trump being a stooge for Putin were to throw everyone off the fact that Putin paid over $340 million into Clinton Global Initiative so he could get Uranium One mining rights, which is treason committed by Obama, Hillary, and Biden WH/State Dept. They had to get ahead of that story and accuse Trump of what they are guilty of.
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Russia has been aligned with left wing parties in Europe even before the Soviet Times. Stalin and Lenin met first in Turku, Finland, at the first communist congress. The left wing green movement is entirely controlled from Moscow to kill European nuclear energy, so Russia can bend places like Germany over the barrel. Russia doesn't give a rip about the environment.
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@BringbackgAmberleafns European solidarity is a myth. The history of Europe is filled with regional conflicts and long wars. The only period of peace was when security decisions were made for Europe in Washington D.C, checking the desires of Moscow.
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@Blonde Sucks Meaning you hire them indefinitely with almost zero chance of firing them.
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@soul0360 Thanks for the well-worded reply. I have EU Citizenship through Finland, where I have lived on and off since 1979. We also lived in West Germany from 1980-1982, and I have spent a bit of time in Denmark and Sweden. Unions in the US really make progress halt as they are incentivized to go slow to draw out payment for never-ending projects. They act more like organized crime rackets in many cases. We're dealing with that right now on some projects that could be completed in a few weeks with advanced tooling and techniques, but they won't allow it because they want to hand-dig foundations for structures on government-paid infrastructure projects. It's really impossible to make any relevant comparisons between tiny Denmark in Scandinavia with 5.79 million, and the US with 335.64 million in temperate North America. I do love Denmark, Finland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Sweden though. I choose to live in the US as an entrepreneur.
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Germany announced a doubling of their military budget to €100 Billion. Is that what you wanted?
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@alehaim The wars between the Swedish empire and Russland date way back before Finland became a Grand Duchy. That border region has been under a tug-of-war for centuries. Russians want more access to the Baltic, while Finns, Swedes, Livonians, Karelians, Polish-Lithuanians, and Ingrians have all been involved in the back-and-forth. The only real terrain that functionally separates Finland and Russia is the Karelian isthmus. There is nothing but forest and lakes north of there along the vast border, very sparsely-populated. I’ve traveled up and down that region and back-and-forth into Russia many times.
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@marmac83 The idea of ethnolinguistic nation states emerged all over the world as the major empires decayed into history. We look back at the 1800s from a nation state perspective of the present, when that was a pretty rare thing at the time. British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portugese, Danish, Russian, Swedish-Norwegian, Prussian, Ottoman-Turkish, Austrian and later Austro-Hungarian empires were the norm. Finland as a Grand Duchy was an interesting place, though not totally without precedent. The empires of course all had pockets of unique ethnolinguistic peoples, which formed the basis of the various nation states that emerged after the Great War and WWII, free from their dissolved empires, inspired by more modern experiments in government from which to yearn for their identities.
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@Halcon_Sierreno Yup. Stalin sent the 44th Ukrainian Division so he could kill 2 birds with one stone: Wipe out more prime age Ukrainian males and take Finland. Those guys were sent to the slaughter in the Winter War.
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What reliable sources are there that describe Russian financing of Le Pen? We know the Soviets backed Biden's hopeless campaign for Senate in 1972, which is how he got into US politics. They used the environmental front group, The Council for a Livable World.
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