Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. Liberum votum was the bane of Poland. It’s also incredibly bad for the EU.
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  2. And that was largely true when you were a child — if you are old enough. Are you in your fifties?
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  3. Lots of Moroccans are in trouble with the law…
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  4.  @wabalaladabdab  They were neutral long before they became rich. They happen to be (mostly) in the Alps so most of their territory is very hard to invade. They also happen to have powerful neighbours which serve as a protective barrier (in good times) or as a serious cause of problems (in bad times). The latter point is made much worse by the fact that there aren't really any truly Swiss -- there are French-Swiss, German-Swiss, and Italian-Swiss (I'm ignoring the Romansh). If they weren't neutral, a large conflict in Europe (back in the day) could easily escalate to a Swiss civil war. They have very good reasons for being neutral and they are lucky enough to have the geography to get away with it. On the other hand, there is no risk of this war turning into a Swiss civil war so they have zero excuse for being neutral in this particular case.
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  5. AfD isn’t “far right”, either.
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  6. There are French protests all the time, going back decades. Dutch and German protests are a new thing.
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  7. The word “racist” should have been in scare quotes. There are still surprisingly few racist politicians in Europe (and most of them are immigrants of the Muslim persuasion). Wanting to keep dumb, dangerous, and expensive people out is not racist in the slightest. No upvote for you.
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  8. Same as Poland’s problem with Liberum Veto. We need to go to a system where it takes two or three members for a veto.
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  9. Germany’s race to Paris in 1914 would have succeeded if Belgium hadn’t wasted their time. And that, unfortunately, is what prevented a short and almost bloodless war. One that would even have ended correctly, with a smack down of France.
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  10. That somehow never applied to Turkey. It would be nice to finally kick them out of Cyprus, too, by the way.
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  11.  @daft5670  propaganda works on a lot of people, apparently. You being one of them…
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  12. There are also several written agreements where Russia accepts NATO's expansion.
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  13.  @yyyy-uv3po there is indeed a serious integration problem… you seem to imply it’s caused by the Swedes. I can assure you it’s not, except to the extent that Sweden refused to block them at the border, refuses to punish them, refuses to stop throwing money at them, and refuses to deport them.
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  14. Not only that, but a population of 50k people is utterly incapable of defending itself. Greenland is going to need a big brother no matter what. Denmark is not the worst one they could get.
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  15. They also don’t exist yet. They do sound very nice, though.
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  16. You need much more than “stricter emigration laws”. You need massive remigration, on the scale of a hundred thousand a year. You also need to put the people who forced the immigration upon you behind bars for treason.
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  17.  @georgesdelatour  so you understand but pretend not to.
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  18. There are no NATO puppets.
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  19. A real answer? Give them less free money, preferably none at all. Send them home if they misbehave. In other words: let actions have consequences and let good actions (integration) have good consequences and bad actions (crime, Islamism) have bad consequences.
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  20.  @glendisshiko8182  It doesn't have to take 10 years or cost that much. It is mainly a question of political will -- for years, you could get cheap votes by making nuclear cumbersome and complicated. You still can, actually. There are no physical or engineering or economic reasons it should take that long and cost that much.
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  21. A really, really tall fish.
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  22. And they are not wrong, you know. And West Germany is in France and Northern “Germany” is actually Danish.
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  23. Less panic, more calm, more deliberation, less sloppy -- my kind of team :)
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  24. Soviet infiltration. It’s not complicated at all.
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  25. A rational person wouldn’t hate the AfD nor call it “right winged”. It is a normal center party in a country of leftist extremists. The AfD is also not wrong about immigration, whereas every other significant party in Germany is.
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  26.  @masrod94  Oh, alright, so by "occupying allies" you actually mean the people protecting the Greeks and Armenians against Turkish oppression? In other words, they were the good guys?
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  27.  @RT-ie2rj  we can’t ditch the gas dependency that follows from wind/solar use anytime soon as that would require absolutely enormous batteries. The more wind/solar, the more gas dependence. The right option is nuclear, which can be scaled up faster than wind/solar, doesn’t require gas, and doesn’t require batteries. We are in the current mess exactly because we got so much wind/solar…
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  28. It means Russia can sell gas to Germany without having it go through Ukraine. That means Russia can put pressure on Ukraine by shutting down the gas sent through them without hurting the gas export to Germany.
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  29. So we'll end up with 2 Germanys, 2 Greeces, 1.5 Frances, 1.5 Netherlands, 0.1 Luxemburg, 0.05 Maltas, 2 Romanias, 0.9 (and growing) Norway and some loose bits and pieces of the UK...?
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  30. The "refugees" was another one. Probably a lot bigger.
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  31. Napoleon XIV comme le Président!
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  32. The arrogance of German media at the time was astonishing to watch. That’s when I stopped watching German TV.
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  33. Anti-islamists are not the hateful ones!
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  34.  @arnewengertsmann9111 the raw uranium is not where the costs are. It is basically free in the grand scheme of things. It is also something that one can easily import years in advance — and refueling can also be postponed, if necessary. It is nothing like gas (hard to store, expensive unless pumped in pipelines) or oil (not quite as hard to store). It is more like a “super coal”: we need very little of it and it is incredibly easy to store for years (decades).
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  35.  @Thomas-iw8yd  no, the Turks have also been a burden. Just not to the degree that the Arabs have!
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  36.  @MetaHunter1  Germany is so extremely gas-dependent BECAUSE it has so much wind/solar. You cannot reduce it without also REDUCING wind/solar. What Germany should do instead is restart its nuclear power plants and start building new ones immediately. It should also build the much delayed LNG terminals that have been on the drawing board for a decade. Nuclear is artificially expensive due to dumb regulations -- due to absurdly large exclusion zones, for example. Wind/solar is artificially cheap because the cost of the gas dependency isn't included.
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  37. A lot of them didn’t actually flee from tyrants.
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  38.  @aixtom979  I don’t agree. The numbers also matter — even good people who obviously contribute can be a problem if there are too many of them. There are also already too many bad immigrants who come to Europe legally. We should talk seriously about how to make more of the bad ones illegal.
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  39.  @Gallalad1  yes, they are generally weird.
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  40. Yep. It’s a candlemakers’ protest against the Sun.
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  41.  @MickeyStartraveller I think he actually won most of them :(
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  42. To be fair, there aren’t. Those rules were (expensive) security theater.
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  43. Yep. An overview of which acquis chapters are going to be hard, which are going to be easy, where they are making progress…
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  44. Romania’s Hungarians and Germans are not really comparable to the Russians in the Baltics.
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  45.  @1997CWR  or on debt!
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  46. I would call them “long, poor cultural backgrounds” but maybe that’s just me. And they 100% SHOULD abandon them if they are bad, which they are for people from Turkey, Pakistan, the Middle East, Northern Africa, etc.
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  47. The German thing where political parties all “own” friendly foundations is a weird thing that really takes some time to get used to for us non-Germans.
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  48. But in better health, surely!
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  49.  @Hanoth  You can add a couple of decades to that.
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  50.  @IhaveBigFeet  you should spend some time looking into how WW1 started. Germany was not the aggressor there. France and Russia were. Mobilizing huge armies right next to the border was considered a declaration of war back then. And Belgium should have let the German armies pass through unhindered so they could have dealt with the French threat against Germany. Instead, almost all the fighting on the western front ended up happening in Belgium. Not the smartest move by Belgium.
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