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

  1.  @cultural-and-historical  The EU has a military aspect, too. It’s all been negotiated in advance and it’s all there in the treaties, waiting to be activated. We are also allowed to use the NATO command structure for EU operations… that has also been negotiated in advance. We are working hard behind the scenes to reduce our dependency on US equipment (from certain weapons to troop transport planes)… take a look at PESCO and Thierry Breton’s DG DEGIS for the public details.
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  2. Is there something wrong with normal money so it can’t be used to pay for infrastructure? Must infrastructure be paid for with debt? Or have you fallen for someone’s propaganda?
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  3. Yes, because the UK was never in the Schengen Zone. Even if it had been, they would still need some form of photo id -- doesn't have to be a passport, could be a driving license for example. Electricity bills and gas bills don't count ;)
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  4.  @karthago1469  Hah! No, it isn't.
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  5. Finland will join, with or without Sweden. They would prefer to join together with Sweden, of course, but they won’t be held back by Swedish indecisiveness. Sweden will most likely join if Finland joins. The Swedish PM’s problem is her own party and her parliamentary support of small and absurd Communist parties. The Swedish Left was massively infiltrated by the Soviet Union and a lot of people are still swayed by modern Russian propaganda (about “peace” and “deescalation” and how “eeevil” NATO and the US are).
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  6.  @holgerandersengrn3457  > In Greenland, a few families hold the power Motzfeldt, Kleist, Egede... ?
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  7.  @reginaldcampos5762 not all religions are equal — and some of them are already illegal, strictly speaking. We are just all too lame to uphold the rule of law.
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  8.  @herrensaar1989  Rare earth minerals are abundant pretty much everywhere. They are not rare at all. It’s just old fashioned terminology for lanthanoids and actinoids in the periodic table. They are quite similar chemically, which means they are difficult to separate. That means expensive or polluting separation. China chose to go for pollution, which is why we can get reasonably cheap rare earth elements from them. There are plenty of other mines that can be restarted if the Chinese increase their prices too much. Of course, the higher the concentration of these elements in the ores, the easier it is to get pure elements out. Maybe that would work out in Greenland, maybe it won’t.
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  9. Higher interest rates would strangle the Southern European economies — because they still haven’t fixed their problems down there (rigid labour market due to dumb labour laws, rampant tax evasion, and tax laws that would kill all honest businesses).
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  10. "Green" hydrogen is a really dumb idea, actually. More HVDC power lines between countries/regions is a much better idea. More nuclear is an even better idea. Heat pumps instead of gas heating is also a brilliant idea.
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  11. Cem Özdemir's name is pronounced "Chem".
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  12.  @scifino1  that region was much larger than it needed to be. At least it turned into a wonderful nature park. (People could have stayed in most of it. People could move back to most of it today. And this was due to a really “special” two-of-a-kind stupid reactor design with no containment vessel. That is not how any of the other reactors were built, not even the older ones at the same power plant. The reactor was literally built to be unsafe just to make it slightly cheaper AND was literally built without the containment vessel that was standard everywhere else. That it blew up has zero relevance for any other reactors. It’s like saying that a homebuilt rocket car that runs on hydrogen peroxide to set a speed record in an American desert tells you anything about the general safety of cars.)
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  13. Greenland would benefit much, much more from less Socialism, less nepotism, and a smaller state that wasn't modelled on the worst Scandinavian Socialist ideas of the 1970's. And sobering up wouldn't hurt, either...
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  14. @Izahealyou don’t know what left and right mean.
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  15.  @irtakus  practically zero people knew that that particular slogan — which had also been used by other political parties — had ever been used by the SA. It is something as neutral as “Alles für Deutschland”. That does not actually make anybody “far right” or “Nazi”.
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  16. Germany’s Energiewende is going really, really well :(
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  17. Frank, nuclear is artificially expensive due to a harsh regulatory climate, not because it is actually expensive.
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  18.  @noorschoices977  Africa is lucky to have had Europeans. Africans are far richer and safer today because of us.
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  19.  @matthewburrow3089  Hi, Ivan Notavitch Botskivich.
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  20. Bias*ED*. Come on!
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  21.  @Veritas-66  no, just sloppiness.
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  22. They already see us as both.
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  23.  @danielefabbro822  this failure has many fathers, Italy being one of them. Italy has imported many illegal “refugees” and sent them up north (without registering them first) with fresh mobile phones, some clothes, and phone numbers of friendly lawyers.
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  24. Merkel is not up for re-election. That means she is ok with wasting more of her voters’ money in order to make the rest of her term easier. Germany was actually expected to be one of the frugal until she got lazy and made a u-turn.
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  25. ⁠ @gamps2771 stop behaving like an evil barbaric tribe, then. Stop fellating Russia. Admit your blame for the Yugoslav wars. Be thankful you were bombed. Admit your blame for WW1. Be grateful to Germany and Austria-Hungary. Be civilized.
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  26. Perhaps do a video on labour markets? Why is it so risky to hire people in the South (they are impossible to fire) and why do people down there think that's a good thing even though it is the cause of their high unemployment and one of the causes of their bad economies?
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  27. Can Çakıroğlu take a closer look. The signatories to the treaty of Sèvres were not all signatories to the treaty of Lausanne. Therefore, the Treaty of Lausanne does not replace the Treaty of Sèvres in international law. I think the final solution to the problem of Turkey will involve a split into smaller states (most of which probably won’t be independent for a loooong time) and the easiest way is to simply use the Treaty of Sèvres, as it is still legally binding. Would be nice to liberate Constantinople as well.
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  28. Listening to too much Communist propaganda is bad for your brain.
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  29. Ah, but should the Schengen Area also be open to gypsies?
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  30.  @FunBotan  by “still” you mean “always will be”, right? I mean, since you work in the energy sector and know stuff, right?
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  31. Not paranoia. Calm calculations regarding possible future conquest of Kaliningrad. Kicking Russia out would be wonderful but it is actually German and not Polish, like all the Polish nationalists believe.
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  32. He’s da boss. Probably busy bossing.
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  33. The fascists weren’t far right, either. They were far out and bad for Italy, but that doesn’t by itself make anybody far right. “Super Populist in a way that the Super Populists on the far left don’t like” is what they really mean.
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  34.  @chunkykong1976  people who need crutches like that to pick a party shouldn’t really vote, should they?
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  35.  @peperminth7236  No, not really. The research actually shows that being less intelligent at 11 means you are likely to die a lot sooner. You can look up the Lothian Birth Cohort research group on the net. They have used really old IQ tests that were used to decide whether the kids should have go to longer and more theoretical school or a shorter and more practical school. They then followed up on these people late in their lives. Turns out that how long they lived had very little to do with what kind of job they had or what kind of school they went to -- it had much more to do with their childhood IQ. This was a big surprise. (Some bright kids didn't go to the fancy school either because they didn't want to or because their families didn't want them them to. And some families paid for a fancy school for their not-so-bright kids. Turns out the test scores were more predictive of the kids' income, social status, health, and life span than the socio-economic status of their parents or what schools the kids went to...) It's all out there -- the leader of the group is Ian J. Deary. They published regular reports + the occasional research paper.
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  36. No, it is much older than Fukushima. The Soviets were always good at infiltration — it is largely their invention.
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  37.  @TLDRnewsEU  I hope someone got fayered for that!
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  38. I agree -- but I want those rules applied to Germany as well.
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  39. Don’t be daft! The Hartz reforms saved Germany. Merkel was a disaster and the “Greens” and their unscientific policies have been very bad.
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  40. The immigration problem has no nice solutions once they are already here. It is, however, extremely easy and cheap to solve before they arrive. It is also a very fast growing problem so it might not be the biggest problem but it is in the top 5 or top 10 in most of Europe and it is one of the most important problems to solve (while we still can).
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  41.  @pixelboy7654 no, legal immigration is also a problem. There are too many people coming in and they haven’t been vetted properly. That doesn’t get solved magically by passing laws and creating official documents that make it legal.
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  42. Over 80% of the French population is economically illiterate.
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  43.  @Personoflordlycalibur and Germany paid reparations for a war it didn’t start to the countries that started it (WW1, Versailles).
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  44. Perhaps Greece should fix its labour laws? And have you created that land register yet? And cut the public sector down to something reasonable? No? Have you started paying your taxes?
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  45.  @kaanaslan3003  Turkey will only make us poorer, weaker, and more unstable. Your numbers are NOT a good argument in FAVOUR of Turkey — they are a good argument AGAINST it. Even if you got rid of Erdogan and his AKP crazies (I really hope you do!), Turkey will remain a basket case due to the extreme fertility of stupid, religious people in Anatolia. Education might fix the religiosity one day, but it can’t fix stupid. Intelligence is mostly genetic… In fact, the best thing that could happen for the normal people in Turkey (they are the minority), is for Turkey to break up into smaller countries with the normal people in one or two of them and all the dumb people in the others.
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  46. "Wir schaffen das"?
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  47. The type of migrants that Western Europe has taken in -- and that Poland tries to avoid -- actually cost money. That means there is a right answer: don't let that type in.
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  48. Greenland will never become independent. If it's lucky, it gets to choose who it depends on. Unfortunately, lots of Greenlanders have very unrealistic nationalistic dreams of "freedom", somehow with the same or higher standard of living.
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  49. She shouldn't have closed those nuclear power plants...
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  50. What does the Quran say about Christians? That they should be killed or taken as slaves. That is what it says. Your religion is nasty, totalitarian, against our human rights, and actually illegal if we actually upheld our laws in Europe.
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