Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "The Costs of Germany's Support for Ukraine" video.

Ukraine discovered huge natural gas fields in Kharkiv in 2011 and off the coast of Odessa in 2016. Ukrainian people and many pro-Ukrainian independence politicians were working towards establishing favorable trade status with EU, but always struggled with Russian puppets taking over energy companies and government, like with Burisma and President Yanukovych-who were working for Putin. 79% of Ukraine wanted to trade with EU and distance themselves from the Ruble. Putin had Yanukovych sign onto the Russian-Eurasian Economic Pact against the will of Ukraine in late 2013, which kicked off the Euromaiden protests for 4 months. Yanukovych was forced out in March 2014, then on cue...Putin's neonazi nationalist groups in Luhansk and Donetsk started killing people and launching attacks against Ukrainian forces. Russian media then declared that...the US was stirring up trouble in Ukraine to expand NATO, while denying they invaded Donbas. Then their poorly-trained air defense forces shot down an airliner over Ukraine, even as they continued to lie about them not being there.
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@basestone Marshall Plan immigration brought in unskilled workers from Turkey, Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia, and North Africa. They loved socialism with all its hand-outs, which left the burden even greater on actual Germans. The posterity of the immigrants are a mix of a few technically-inclined, failures to integrate, and straight up welfare-class people. The unity of Germanic peoples from the Prussian Reforms, Kaiser Republic, and reactionary Nazi era are long-gone. The Brits and French finally got their wish by destroying Germany, but they suffer from the same problems too. They all are headed into demographic winter, flooded with incompatible ethnic immigrants who have no historical or ideological connection to the land, hate its native inhabitants, and expect hand-outs and "free" services. Continental Europe is ripe for internal conflict, let alone Russian invasion. Have you been to France lately?
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Germany couldn't even cough up a military transport aircraft for their new Defense Minister to go visit their troops in Afghanistan, and that was years ago.
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If you have ever worked with the Germans on a large defense program, things take forever. Breaks, holidays, endless regulations, and a bureaucratic labyrinth black hole of busywork non-decisions ensures lack of rapid progress. It's what you get after all the decisive, risk-takers were systematically eliminated in WWII, leaving only shop-keepers, self-doubters, and nosy neighbors to try to repopulate Deutschland.
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@youtubewatcher2 Germany's economic model is built largely on exports to its neighbors, who are all extremely vulnerable to economic instability prior to SARSCoV2, let alone Russian expansion into Europe.
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@youtubewatcher2 But how will Germany and her neighbor customers deal with the energy crisis, specifically? I outlined fundamental economic forces that are now being undercut. We can't just pretend they aren't real and that "somehow Germany will just pull through". What options are there? Even after Russia invaded, Germany continued with the nuclear reactor shutdown plan. That's a bad sign for solving the energy crisis.
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@sietuuba Are they firing up the nuke plants again?
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Germany is no longer the Germany of 1871-1943, nor is it the Germany of 1945-1989. They have aborted/committed infanticide against themselves, so there aren't enough prime age German males to push Germany through their current challenges. Even worse, Germany has brought in millions of foreign workers and now welfare-leeches who are net negative contributors, on top of the external problems. The recipe Germany has had baking in the oven over the past 70 years spells the end of Germany, sadly.
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@basestone But how many children did the Germans born from 1964-1983 have vs killed in the womb? That's the problem. I grew up partially with them when we lived in West Germany. There were kids in the farming villages, but not so many in the cities per capita. There were already a ton of immigrants then, none of who share German cultural or generic traits.
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@R3GARnator The US has been steadily withdrawing strategically from Europe since 1992. We were stationed in West Germany when you could barely count the number of US bases in Europe, there were so many. We had Ramstein, Bitburg, Spangdahlem, Hahn, Torrejon, Geilenkirchen, Vicenza, Soesterburg, multiple bases in UK, and pulled out of those dramatically after Desert Storm. It has been a constant draw-down since then, despite the dominant Russian propaganda claiming otherwise.
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@CanadianPrepper It's really not. Nobody collects, analyzes, and forecasts like this. The presstitute corporate whore media drives messaging, and the "independent" online media is full of foreign disinformation and bad attempts by legacy presstitutes to adapt. The overwhelming majority of start-up information channels don't even have a basic education in geography, history, economics, business, and industrial market structures, yet make all kinds of absolute prognostications about these events out of utter ignorance. Then you have PhD professors and retired Generals running their mouths with ridiculous comments, getting some things right, while failing terribly with the fundamentals. Show me anybody else who has broken down the global semiconductor industry structure, trends, and challenges in a way that both the industry professional and layman can understand in context.
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@mistasomen The anti-nuke movement that was fomented by Russia dates back to no later than the 1970s. Soviet agitprop actors were woven throughout European parliaments, universities, and media, especially in West Germany, England, and France. The German politicians who finally killed Germany's nuke program grew up in that environment where they heard a constant barrage of anti-nuke messaging, and were too stupid to realize who was driving the messaging.
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@teahousereloaded Same with Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma, which was embezzling money from Ukraine and funneling it through shell companies to Putin. That's why Vice President Joe Biden told the Ukrainians to stop the investigation, fire the chief prosecutor, or they won't get $1 Billion is USD from the Obama WH/US Treasury. Biden has been on Soviet payroll since 1972, when they financed his senate campaign in Delaware.
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