Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "DW News" channel.

  1. I finish a video from Peter Zeihan talking about trade and economic conditions very similar to the 1930s, with him emphasizing that those of us who have studied those times know how that worked out. I look at my feed from DW and see this. That’s enough internet for the day.
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  2. ​ @danny81693 Are you talking about Karelia or other parts of Finland the Russians stole?
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  3.  @omallakas4156  Nope. It took Russia 30 years to get the drilling rigs pumping oil and NG out again. Russian oil fields are mostly in permafrost, which requires US or Canadian firms to manage the drilling and extraction with special rigs that only the US and Canada know how to build. Russia never has been able to make the proper bits, shafts, drilling rigs, or train petroleum engineers and technicians on this very technical aspect of the petroleum industry. Once these oil heads shut off, those points at the origin will be dead for decades, probably forever.
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  4.  @CB_GAMES777  Clearly you’ve never been to the Pentagon. The Pentagon doesn’t have rooms like that, nor does it host foreign presidents to create treaties.
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  5. Have you ever studied geographic and mineral resources of nations? I think a lot of people expect that a flag and borders makes them on equal footing and potential with any other. This simply isn't reality. Some regions have vast resources, while others have precious little in critical base foods and energy.
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  6. ​ @MoeHamHead-bx7og "We are piece-loving people! Stop resisting and we won't have to hit you!" - Russia
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  7.  @pshemko__  It really changed once Somalis were invited in. They had to clarify Finnish law on marrying your cousins because of Somalis. Somalis are incompatible with Finland based on culture, climate, religion, and work habits.
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  8.  @wahidali9592  What time zone are you in?
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  9. ​ @chris-hg3iv  American forces didn't target and kill millions of civilians in any of those places. The #1 murderers of civilians in Iraq were Saddam and the Ba'ath Party, secteraian factions, Iranian-backed insurgents, and ISIS. The #1 murderes of civilians in Afghanistan were the Soviet Union, and now the Taliban. #1 murderers of civilians in Syria is Assad, followed by Russia and ISIS. Libya has had a civil war backed by Russia, Turkey, Egypt, and other factions in the region based on tribal and other factors. The US hasn't targeted civilians in Libya either.
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  10. @coldpotatoes2556 Putin already was planning to invade Finland. One of his foreign ministry secretaries was talking about this in the early 2000s, and was told to shut his mouth. Not just Finland, but all former Tsarist-era territories.
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  11. The problems with Russia are its geography and demographics. Russia has suffered many major brain drains since 1914: 1. The Great War 1.7 million casualties 2. Bolshevik Revolution (persecuted scientists who didn’t accept Marxism, relocated millions of people, causing mass deaths, as well as executions) 3. Russian Civil War caused 7-12 million casualties 4. Holodomor in Ukraine was anywhere from 9-20 million. Mass graves with destroyed records as Soviet policy prevents us from knowing how many for sure. 5. Dekulakization involved liquidation, deportation, and forced labor camps for 1.5 million of Russia’s greatest farmers. 6. Then The Great Patriotic War happened, and Russia lost anywhere from 26.6 million people on-up, many still missing to this day, 6 million buried still unidentified 7. Stalin’s mass executions 8. Khrushchev era collapse of Russian peasants to the cities, low birth rate began 9. Late 1980s-1990s collapse of Soviet Union and flight of Russian intelligentsia, engineers, scientists, professors, technicians 10. Ukraine conflicted from 1914-present Reasonable people have been systematically purged from Russia for over 100 years, whether by foreign wars or domestic policies and extremely bad leadership. This is the plight of Russia.
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  12. The baseline is an expectation that China doesn’t care about human rights though. They ran an infanticide program against their own people for 35 years, as well as the Tiananmen Square massacre. Who knows how many other massacres have happened that never saw the light of day in the West.
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  13. US pioneered hypersonic technology in the 1960s.
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  14.  @BM-ef2ph  “This hurst me more than it does you! Can’t you see!!!” Doosh dooosh dooosh!!
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  15. Germany was so foolish to shut down their nuclear energy industry.
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  16.  @IgorFranknstn27  Netherlands with its tiny population of 17.5 million had $1.018 Trillion GDP in 2021, while Russia’s 143 million people on the largest land area in the world with all their resources had $1.776 Trillion. You start to see how poor Russia is with these comparisons.
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  17.  @АлександрКуницын-и6к  The US bailed out Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan in the 1990s with Nunn-Lugar. American companies moved in, German companies moved in, and those products ands services were well-received. Nobody wanted to extinguish Russia, especially not in the West. There were attention-deficit hopefuls in Washington DC and Europe who kept talking about the peace dividend, but Eastern Europeans knew history would repeat itself, so they begged to join NATO. The US, Berlin, and London would have preferred to see an economically-strong Russia that isn’t belligerent, to help increase trade and international relations. Russians don’t think this way though, because they’re always thinking about who will attack them next.
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  18.  @UserName_no1  Guess who funded and agitated those fringe environmentalists groups? I watched it happen since the 1970s. We were stationed in West Germany from 1980-1982. Anti-nuke was and is a Soviet agitprop campaign that really gained traction as soon as the Russians converted into a net exporter of Oil/NG. Prior to that, they were competitors in nuclear power and saw themselves as pioneers in it. They still use it, but can’t really enjoy cash-flow from it abroad.
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  19.  @akafozzy  Aurora has been around for over 3 decades, with atmospheric contrail analogies as evidence.
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  20.  @paush51  F-35A has the safest record of any fighter in history. It has been flying since 2006, only 2 crashes. 1 was a Japanese F-35A where the pilot was flying normally, then dove into a steep 60° angle into the ocean. 2 was a USAF pilot who left the speed hold on at 202 knots, tried to land it at that speed at night, bounced it off the runway, smashing the landing gears into the wheel wells, then ejected. Well over 500 F-35As have been built.
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  21.  @aaronely759  US commercial market chip shortage is separate from DoD contractor chip suppliers. Totally different manufacturing centers supply SC components to DoD subsystem manufacturers from within the US and Canada.
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  22.  @cartrips9263  Russia was in free-fall almost under Yeltsin, very unsettling and demoralizing for the people in Russia after the Soviet Union fell apart. US and IMF bail-outs under Nunn-Lugar were designed to help prevent total collapse. The first generation of Russian oligarchs didn’t like the direction the nation was headed because their continued business enterprises relied on a more stable Russia, so they placed contenders in 3 deputy primer minister positions under Yeltsin to move into the throne. One of those 3 Deputy PMs was Vladimir Putin. As soon as Putin assumed the Presidency when Yeltsin resigned on Dec 31, 1999, Putin exiled, imprisoned, or had the 1st Gen oligarchs killed, then handed their businesses over to his cronies to solidify his singular power over the government in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
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  23.  @John-hu9qg  None of whom have petroleum engineers, drill bits, and rigs built for drilling through permafrost. Norwegians do offshore drilling. Iranians have no permafrost. Chinese and Middle Eastern petroleum engineers have no clue how to do it either. They are exclusively US and Canadian technologies, far more advanced than people might think.
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  24.  @ianworley8169  The new Norway-Polish pipeline actually intersects near Nordstream 1 and 2, just south of Bornholm. Someone is sending a message that they can blow that up too, so if Europe turns off Russian gas, “someone" will turn theirs off too.
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  25.  @davidgmillsatty1900  Russia started this war in 2014 when Ukrainians ejected Yanukovych. It had nothing to do with NATO.
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  26.  @oconnor6456  40k soldiers with air support and artillery can easily take a city of 5 million. A much smaller force took a much larger city in 2003. You might have heard of it. The US forces amounted to 30,000, whereas Baghdad was over 8 million people with a 45,000 defenders. You talk about “anyone with the slightest touch? in military education" without knowing basic recent facts of modern examples. I just happened to be in OIF1 in 2003, so I know a little bit about warfare, having studied it from the 1970s-present with a library and deployment history that far exceeds anything Russia has done. So given your metrics, it makes it even more obvious that Putin was absolutely planning on taking Kiev, and failed miserably. After getting his face kicked in, he shifted over to Donbas to try to save face and gloss over the fact that thousands of vehicles have been lost, with over 10,000 soldiers KIA. Diversions are a basic strategy that even the most incompetent generals have used in warfare. The ability to adapt and maintain logistics to the fight while letting competent leaders work in their space is what most armies never master. Russia has neither the competent commanders, the logistics, or the strategic planning and adaptability because of 6 major brain drains throughout its history since the Bolsheviks destroyed Russia from within. Anyway, on the Eastern front in Ukraine, I see it differently, where Russian forces will be defending and losing ground. Now that the Ukrainians taste blood and see how incompetent and weak Russian forces are, they aren’t going to hold back.
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  27.  @EmmaDwan8251  You know that US spending on Ukraine aid is actually spending on weapons made by US defense contractors, right?
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  28.  @hadjihawaie  The media is opposite of reality in this case especially.
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  29.  @MrGolov-te5eb  Look at a map of where the explosions happened....right near where the Norway-Poland pipeline flows. Nordstream pipes intersect with Norway-Poland line South of Bornholm. It’s a message that the Norway pipeline can be blown too. Who would do that?
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  30.  @tomi-Q  I never started that conversation back then. It was being discussed in Finnish news, so I would suspect YLE. My mom was talking about it with some of our relatives. This would have been between 2004-2005.
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  31. It would have been a great aircraft had it been designed and built in the West, using engines that work reliably and have long life, significant use of composites in the airframe, and avionics that were actually useful, driven from a cockpit that had the pilot in-mind. Visibility from the canopy would have been better as well. Drop the airframe weight with composites, use consistent templates for the skin panels (unlike Russian method of hand-drilling randomly), use smaller diameter F404 motors (35” vs RD-33 $1”) and resulting smaller profiled engine nacelles for better aerodynamics, acceleration, speed, and combat radius. Or you can just look at the Baby Hornet with twice the weapons stations. MiG-29 can only carry 6 AAMs. F/A-18A-D can carry 12 AAMs. F/A-18 is vastly-superior in the multi-role mission set capabilities since it has been developed for SEAD, strike, Anti-Ship, DCA, OCA, CAS, and FAC.
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  32.  @cikica07  Russia came from Kiev. Yuri Dolgoruki is the founder of Moskva. I have seen his statue in Moskva personally.
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  33. “Stop putting your arm up so I don’t have to keep hitting you!!!!"
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  34.  @teosto1384  The detonation sites aren’t that deep, maybe 70-90m. That’s well within many nations’ capabilities. There is a lot of frogman, mini sub, and submarine cat and mouse games in the Baltic between Russia and everyone else. Russia also has a large military footprint in Kaliningrad, and Putin is desperate right now to tip the balance of the scales with levers against Europe and NATO.
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  35.  @oconnor6456  The attempted seige of Kiev was repelled from the start, and its logistics convoy was destroyed and abandoned. That was the main strategic objective.
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  36.  @Банкивасограбят  Finland isn’t Russian. It has its own identity, distinct language, people, and history very separate from Russia. Even when it was ceded by the Swedes to the Tsar in the 1809, it was left mostly to its own devices as an autonomous Grand Duchy. Stalin learned the hard way what it means to try to take Finland in 1939, and lost around 350,000 casualties in 105 days.
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  37. @abmnueve  The Capitol city of Karelia was literally in Finland.
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  38.  @dpelpal  They initiate separation from their own borders so they don’t get hit by S-300 SAMs based out of Ukraine. Su-34s have been getting shot down a lot, with 20 airframes lost as of March 3. That’s 13% of the Su-34 fleet. Only 153 have been built.
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  39. It's one thing to claim you own something thousands of miles away, and something entirely different to secure it militarily.
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  40. We have insane amounts of NG flowing out of the ground in the US, to the point it is almost free.
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  41.  @lucabrasi3964  Eurofighter is too expensive to acquire and operate, and the SEAD ECR variants are in development, not even operational. Any Eurofighters equipped for the ECR/SEAD mission will be priority for RAF and Luftwaffe. The only platforms with SEAD capability incorporated into them are F-16CMs, which are high-value late-Block USAF Vipers in operational squadrons not going to any foreign service anytime soon, and F/A-18C/Ds existing service or already retired and mothballed. F/A-18C/Ds have been employing the HARM since the late 1980s, and used certain decoy missiles in Desert Storm as well.
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  42. You mean Afghanistan was softened up for Chinese mineral exploration while European banks have been bailed out with opium money. The money wasted on defense spending in Afghanistan killed several critical defense programs, especially the F-22 Raptor. We never even got multi-year F-22 orders, but we wasted billions on MRAPs, ran thousands of aircraft and systems through 20 years of high dust/sand environment in a land-locked nation that stole billions in defense resources.
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  43.  @lik3acholo554  The pipes were already not pushing NG to the market, but remained pressurized. Russia navigates all over the Baltic on a daily basis, and mini submarines are a thing. We don’t know who did this and nobody is going to believe an objective investigation of it if such were done. I would love to see private satellite imagery and shipping traffic, but none of those will expose a mini sub.
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  44. ​ @jannesuominen439 Finland is a Republic with a parliamentary representative democracy on paper, with a lot of leftover church-state underlying records and taxation, and heaps of socialism tacked into it. Then it became a vassal state under the Eurozone on top of that, and is now also a recent NATO power. Finland has lived under the defense support from the US as well, mainly through acquisition of critical aerospace combat systems from the US.
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  45.  @tomi-Q  There was clarification of the law sought due to Somali immigration, as most Finns knew that you don’t marry your cousins. This is all I remember on the subject from that time. Seems like you’re more focused on the minutiae instead of the dominant topic of why this had to be clarified.
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  46. I agree overall, but Canada just demonstrated to the world a very fascist regime treatment of its people, acting on-behalf of big pharma pushing genotoxic mRNA weaponry and mandates, lock-downs, arrests, and mass property theft of masses of citizens with no due process. Canada needs internal cleaning of house in its government. It's not enough to say you're better than despotic regimes somewhere else.
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  47.  @kalez963  Coincidentally, Norway and Poland just opened up a natural gas pipeline that runs right through the same area. The message is clear: “We can blow that too if you stop using Russian NG.” Russian economy needs Europe to fund it, otherwise they go into freefall again, but worse than the 1990s.
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  48. Autocratic nations are typically geographically-challenged and unipolar with cities (one major city with the seat of government). That drives the form of government more than anything.
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  49.  @katimboallan4605  The difference was that Saddam launched chemical weapons against his own people and Iran, had people tortured, kidnapped, raped, and murdered by the secret police. We’re not talking about political movements within a democratic process, but removal of a brutal dictator who targeted even his own Kurdish family side. There isn’t really a comparison with anyone in Europe, Canada, or the US.
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  50.  @alexae1687  US isn’t bankrupt. The US attracts trillions of dollars of Direct Foreign Investment, while generating trillions in GDP. Most US debt is held by the US private sector, followed by US government, then foreign investors because they all have that much confidence in the US’s 140 year trend in exiting every decade economically and militarily stronger than before. No other empire or nation has ever demonstrated that type of performance.
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