Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "Artur Rehi" channel.

  1. Did you know how much bigger than “just” Scandinavia and Russia the Great Northern War was? Check it out on Wikipedia. I was shocked when I found out.
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  2. Helping the Soviet Union back then was a disastrous policy.
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  3.  @stillcantbesilencedevennow why did the US block European transfers of F-16 planes to Ukraine?
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  4. I wonder if the delegates could have used their diplomatic immunity to beat up the Russian delegation.
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  5. Laird, I suppose.
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  6. It's a disgrace that Armenia only had Russia for an ally in the previous war with Azerbaijan, whereas Azerbaijan had the full support of Turkey. We should have helped Armenia -- and it would be a great opportunity for a proxy war with Turkey, to teach them to behave.
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  7. On the other hand, the German military gets a lot of mental health days, maternity leaves, diversity training, etc for its budget. It’s all about priorities!
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  8. Why don’t you just go home? It’s not your land.
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  9. She chose to be evil. Do you also cry for all the dead Russian soldiers?
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  10. Supplying the Soviet Union in the early 40’s was a really dumb move :(
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  11.  @kacperdudenko6828 no, President of the European Council. The job that Charles Michel (former Belgian PM) has now. President of the European Commission is the job Ursula von der Leyen has now and that Jean-Claude Juncker (former Luxembourgish PM) had before her. Council vs Commission. Very different beasts.
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  12. "Mein Führer... Steiner... Steiner konnte nicht genügend Kräfte für einen Angriff massieren. Der Angriff Steiner ist nicht erfolgt."
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  13.  @SylviusTheMad so, not at all then.
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  14. My favourite: Russian TV (and social media) relentlessly claiming that Ukraine was shelling civilian apartment blocks in Donbas in 2014 -- and the "proof" was an amateur video from the failed Proton-M rocket launch in July 2013, filmed from within an apartment in Baikonur. It was a pretty big explosion, so the windows were blown in despite the large distance.
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  15.  @TheTheomax  I don’t think they know what blenders are.
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  16. Now imagine how much better it would have been without the Communists…
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  17. The many refugees bringing back their experiences from outside of Ukraine will also help. They have all seen it can be done better. They have all seen how it can be done better.
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  18. And you have North and South Holland — which are in the Mid West of the country ;)
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  19. Yeah, but they are all full of eels this time of year.
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  20. The radioactivity of uranium is so tiny as to be entirely irrelevant. That you get lots of uranium dust from DU shells and that the metal is toxic does matter.
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  21.  @dannydetonator I don’t think a lot of them are refugees. More like “refugees”.
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  22. There is practically zero radiation.
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  23. Have you ever tried comparing the Ribbentrop-Molotov division line with Germany’s pre-Versailles border? There is a very good argument to be made there and it very much favour as Germany.
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  24.  @felixcat9318  in this case, I feel sorry for the mobilized soldiers. The ones from February until a few weeks ago were criminals who chose to be criminals (except for some of the Ukrainians fromDonetsk and Luhansk). The mobilized really are forced and it really is hard for them to get away.
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  25. International law doesn’t require foreign countries to keep helping you with weapons, though. For now, it’s most sensible for Ukraine to (mostly) follow the dumb restrictions the US/Germany/Switzerland/etc put on the weapons they give/sell/allow to be resold toUkraine.
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  26.  @Juho.S.  I hope to see that change soon. Will you need a referendum before you can join NATO or can the government/parliament do it on their own? Are there any unjust treaties from the 40’s that need to be taken care of first?
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  27. Ivan, you are supposed to use different propaganda messages with different usernames. They don’t work when you use the same username because you are lazy.
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  28.  @alexandrupatru2892  no, the Romans were not descended from Dacians. That’s the sort of crazy nationalist lunacy I would expect from Turks and Indians, not from real Europeans. It is a bit of a mystery why Romania ended up speaking a Romance language since so little of the country was Roman and since it wasn’t Roman for long… (There were many other italic languages in Italy. Latin was just the one that won in the end. Are you claiming they all were derived from the language in Dacia? If so, why would there be such large differences between the Italic languages?)
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  29. V-2 was German.
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  30. Back when he was only a little evil.
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  31. Your English is getting better, Ivan, but you still have trouble with articles (both definite and indefinite) and the inflections of adjectives. You should use the comparative (“better”) and not the superlative (“best”). Ask your supervisor for more English classes.
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  32. 1) that plant was already shut down. 2) there is a large cooling pond which retains water even when the Kakhovka Reservoir loses water. 3) the dam was likely not damaged far below the original water line so the flooding (and the water loss) will likely be a lot smaller than feared.
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  33. Europe has done much more to keep the Ukrainian economy afloat than the US + we host millions of displaced Ukrainians. We were slightly behind on weapons support but are now a bit ahead and are like to get quite far ahead. I thought this was common knowledge?
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  34. Sorta. Armenia liberated some land that was rightfully Armenian but officially Azeri.
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  35. Extreme dependence on Russian gas + most likely many politicians bought by Russia + a corrupt Prime Minister.
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  36. Shame on the Germans for being so dependent on Russian gas… and for not only shutting their own nuclear power plants down but also trying to make others do the same. Praise the French for having an almost completely nuclear power grid.
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  37. Poland is preparing for the conquest of Königsberg, should an opportunity present itself...
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  38. He can do a voice over of the credits at the end :)
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  39.  @markhepworth  can’t imagine it was only half.
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  40. Bald eagles shout ‘Murica! at 56.3 degrees. Little known fact.
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  41. Nobody else wanted to help them :(
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  42.  @plentyofnothing they obviously count as walking.
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  43. The planes are drunk anyway.
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  44. Because the Soviets ended being one of the two winners of WW2. Why? Because the US helped a lot with weapons and other equipment. Monumental mistake of the century! If the Soviets hadn’t been artificially propped up, Communism would have been over, destroyed by the Nazis… and Germany would have collapsed shortly afterwards, anyway.
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  45. I had expected they would have received tanks and planes several months ago. That’s why I expected in January that the war would have been mostly over by now. I had not expected we would have been that slow with our help.
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  46. Would you have felt the same if she had joined the Russian occupiers in Ukraine? I think it is sad that the 16-year-old died.
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  47.  @Dave5843-d9m  it isn’t, actually. It’s just your lack of familiarity that makes you think so. Look at any country or transnational body — in detail! — and you will find that it seems overwhelmingly complicated at first.
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  48.  @BenjaminVestergaard  a better comparison would be Council=Bundesrat, Commission=Bundesregierung, Parliament=Bundestag (using Germany as the model). Or using the Netherlands as the model: Council=the first chamber, Commission=cabinet, Parliament=second chamber.
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  49. Thank you, my liege.
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  50. Are you from a Dutch family?
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  51. Just like “anti-Semite” means someone who doesn’t like Israel, “islamophobe” is someone who doesn’t like mass immigration of stupid and criminal people, and “anti-Fascist” means Communist. Words are weird.
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  52.  @Thomas-fz9xw  fracking in Europe would have made the whole thing unnecessary. I hate the “greens”.
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  53. Does repetition work?
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  54. I xan pronounce moat of them.
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  55.  @irasthewarrior  dead people can’t be resurrected, lost limbs don’t grow back.
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  56. Luck favours the prepared.
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  57. 205th brigade became brigade 200.
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  58. Did she work with hydrazine? That’s a known carcinogen.
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  59. Yes, but in this case the recognized borders are wrong. The enclave is Armenian and the area between the enclave and Armenia are relatively recent Azerbaijani conquests. This is one of the few conflicts where Russia has been mostly right and one of the many where the Turks (in whichever of “their” lands) haven’t.
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  60. Yup. You don’t cross the Rubicon and then just go home before reaching Rome.
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  61. I guess she was drunk.
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  62. How do you say "Mit dem Angriff Steiners wird das alles in Ordnung kommen." in Russian?
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  63. So Czechoslovakia did the wrong thing. That “War of Independence” was a war of conquest by the violent minority of very recent immigrants against their non-violent hosts. Shame on the Czechs for that.
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  64. Maybe not. Most Americans still haven’t understood what a crime it was to supply the Soviet Union during WW2. They also haven’t understood that they interfered on the wrong side in WW1. People tend to believe what they are taught in school and what they read in the paper (or see on TV)… I hope you are right, of course.
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  65. The Russian Smoking Team looks really good this year.
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  66. More like: the Finns double-crossed the Germans who then had to fight their way out of Finland. They would have loved to be able to leave peacefully.
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  67. Buoy can be pronounced in oh so many ways :(
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  68. So, Kaja and Stark Logistics?
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  69. He used AtlasVPN from Russia.
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  70. Stress doesn’t cause people to hear loud noises where there aren’t any.
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  71. The EU attitude towards Ukraine is very, very positive. Ukraine "just" needs to live up to our Acquis Communautaire. It is completely up to Ukraine now. NATO... is different. Ukraine might not become a member of NATO immediately after the war.
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  72. Chamberlain started the rearmament that allowed Churchill to do his thing… and the Munich Agreement was actually not unreasonable. Scholz hasn’t changed much in Germany despite his Zeitenwende speech and Ukraine is not an illegitimate state like Czechoslovakia was.
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  73. There’s one of him singing “Blueberry Hill” (“I found my thrill, on Blueberry Hill…”) and I think maybe also playing it (badly) on piano. It was on stage at some official event before the Ukraine invasion when everybody preferred to pretend he wasn’t a dictator.
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  74. The one and only Billy Shears!
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  75. Boats are *vessels*, not *vehicles*.
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  76. Not rebuilding Ukraine doesn’t help you with your dishonest media, corrupt universities, bad judges, Soros DAs, or illegal mass immigration.
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  77. They are ELEVATED areas, not heightened areas.
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  78.  @vladimirnovakovic3495 good. I hope the rest of the occupied lands will be liberated one day.
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  79. It’s easy to be neutral in a sea of friendly countries… I bet this is going to cost you some concessions in the new treaty (treaties?) with the EU.
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  80. “Western Rites”?
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  81. Because France (+ empire) was already at war with England (+ empire). The (very low) taxes that a few (very wealthy) Americans didn’t want to pay were to make up for the enormous costs of protecting said Americans’ trade with Europe against French attacks. Should we respect the American tax cheaters and traitors for that? Should we respect the French who “helped”?
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  82. There is lithium practically everywhere. Nevada has huge deposits of a type of clay that contains lots of lithium… and Tesla is building a lithium refinery in Nevada. I think they also own a lot of land with that type of clay. Also plenty of lithium mining in Australia.
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  83. The self-sharpening and the easier machining are two very real advantages. Uranium is also pyrophoric, which is another advantage.
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  84. The Israelis can leave Palestine and go home, just like the Russians in Ukraine can.
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  85. Supplementskanalstøttekommentar.
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  86. “Official reported”… so it is merely a public plan to maybe, some day, god willing start making them again.
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  87. I wish Canada would take the English requirement as seriously as the French requirement.
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  88. You are almost certainly not a minority among Republicans. The American press likes to paint all Republicans as anti-Ukraine in order to make them look bad. Remember how much most of the US press collaborated with Clinton’s presidential campaign a few years back…
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  89. Their propaganda and subversion departments have always been world class.
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  90. That wasn’t really a pretext. The Sudetenland should never have been part of Czechoslovakia.
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  91. Scholz is a Socialist.
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  92. We also pretend the Turks have the right to Northern Cyprus… because that makes our lives easier. But in reality, it is an unjust occupation. Same with Nagorno-Karabakh: it is really Armenian but we pretend it is Azeri (Turkish).
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  93. I’m not.
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  94. That’s an unusual thousands separator. English uses a comma. Just FYI.
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  95. A better comparison would be with the Soviet Union back then. Supporting the Soviet Union turned out to be a huge disaster for the entire world. Much worse than the Nazis… (Oh, and the Sudetenland wasn’t Czech. It was ethnically German and should by rights have been part of Austria. Don’t pretend the Czechoslovaks were good guys!)
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  96. He didn’t push first, his “superior” officer did.
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  97. 100 ˚F is the temperature of blood from a freshly slaughtered horse and 0 ˚F is the temperature of a cold mixture involving ammonia, I think. All very logical and well-known reference points that are easy to come by.
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  98. Yes. But the "greens" have made that very difficult (and exorbitantly expensive). It's mostly Germany that buys Russian gas (and makes electricity super expensive for all of us). Russian oil is much easier to replace with oil from other sources.
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  99. There are also plenty of Democrats who want to reduce or eliminate the aid to Ukraine. They just don’t get as much press in the US. (Why did the US block the transfer of European F-16’s to Ukraine for so long?)
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  100. The AfD are not Nazis, though. They are not even far right. They are a bit to the right economically and they are somewhat anti-immigration and somewhat anti-woke (one of its leaders is an out lesbian). That's it. There are too many people in the party who are too friendly with Russia, but that's also true for two parties on the extreme left: Die Linke ("The Left") and Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (a new party/business by a demagogue who left Die Linke). Both those parties are straight up literal Communists. It's also true for the parties in the middle, who have been deeply infiltrated by the Soviet Union and East Germany since forever. Look up Gerhard Schröder (from SPD, the Social Democrats) for an example.
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  101. Or more accurately: how deeply the Russkis infiltrated Germany after WW2.
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  102. Why would any “refugees” from Israel choose to go to Dagestan? I don’t think they would.
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  103. You are sending weapons. Europe is sending weapons and money and hosting refugees and buying your oil and gas. Perhaps you should reconsider?
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  104. Estonian monk!
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  105. Zyprexa. Now.
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  106. “Attack ‘ems” — that’s how it’s pronounced. Not “attack em es”.
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  107. Take your Zyprexa.
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  108.  @johndoyle2347  threats don’t make you better at physics. Just take your meds, okay? You might come out of it a changed person with a better life.
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  109. If Germany had been a grown-up country regarding nuclear power, the invasion in 2014 wouldn’t have happened. Germany did nothing for decades but shoveling money at Russia, making itself extremely dependent on Russia in the process.
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  110.  @sballantine8127 a few of the planes are two-seaters (one behind the other). One of the Danish planes is, for example. They are not super useful except as trainers and for VIP dog and pony shows.
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  111. Merkel would have done even less than Scholz. She was a disgrace.
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  112. Anybody who fought against the Soviet Union and for the freedom of Ukraine is probably a hero, Ivan.
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  113. Go home, Ivan.
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  114. No, the Turks are still (and again) the bad guys. Armenia’s problem is that for a long, long time, nobody wanted to help them except for Russia. We really let Armenia down. And now Russia can’t help Armenia…
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  115. You were not in Turkey. You were in a Turkish-occupied part of Greece.
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  116.  @AdlerMow 40,000 km = all the way around the Earth. The meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along the meridian through Paris.
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  117. “Kokelet”? Switch to the English keyboard on your phone. It will fix most of your mistakes. Won’t help with “kokelet”, though. I have no idea what that could mean. “I follow someone who kokelet Russian economy, too… and Russian seal(?) on all products of oil are down now with 55% a lot of it are (is) thanks to Ukrainian drone strikes… and the oil refineries are western-made so Russia can’t repair or replace lost production.”
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  118. Königsberg is German.
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  119.  @hitchensghost nope. German.
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  120.  @hitchensghost maybe Poland should return East Germany and Danzig?
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  121. 海参崴 (HǎishēnwǎI) is Manchuria or West Taiwan or Korean. Not Chinese.
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  122. I do. We’ve heard so much crap about “Russia having the right to a buffer zone between itself and NATO”…. Well, I think Ukraine has the right to a buffer zone of, say, 100-300km of demilitarized Russian land next to its border.
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  123. And yet… lots of East Germans vote for Die Linke :(
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  124. It worked for Yul and Patrick :)
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  125. Kim Jong Un is tall in any orientation.
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  126. Ah, but what if Russia teaches the battle dolphins to use brooms?
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  127. Ground water isn’t much of a thing in Mesopotamia, which famously relies on two rivers with rain water and melt water from the mountains (on both sides of the border with Turkey) for almost all its water. The rest is a big, dry sandbox.
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  128. You are absolutely wrong. The AfD are not Nazis. Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht and Die Linke are straight up Communists, though.
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  129.  @britishempireno1fan851  (in reply to your first comment) they absolutely could stop them. The problem is the lack of political will to do so. Most likely the “refugee” lovers were just as much supported by Moscow as the Little Englander BREXIT types were. Russia loves when it’s enemies are disunited.
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  130.  @Steve-ev6vx that’s also the last video of his I watched.
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  131. Doesn't it say "pick up only"?
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  132. When you buy a Tesla, you give up the right to (eventually) use it in a robotaxi fleet that isn’t Tesla’s. Eventually, as in “when the car sometime in the future can drive itself”. These clauses are common in weapons deals.
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  133.  @BenjaminVestergaard  alright, think of the Council as Kommunernes Landsforening but with real power — more power than regeringen (Commission). The fact that we allow government ministers to be members of parliament in Denmark (and many other European countries) is a disgrace and completely against the ideal of separation of powers, both in the American sense and in the Montesquieuan sense.
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  134.  @BenjaminVestergaard  ok, så prøver vi på dansk. Rådet repræsenterer medlemslandene. Rådet har det sidste ord og de andre organer eksisterer kun på grund af traktater mellem medlemslandene. Det er derfor jeg sammenligner det med det tyske Forbundsråd som repræsenterer de 16 forbundslande. Det ville være som hvis kommunerne havde det sidste ord i Danmark i stedet for regeringen (sammen med kongen, dvs dronningen). Du kan også betragte det som en bestyrelse der lader en direktion (Kommissionen) stå for det daglige ledelsesarbejde.
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  135. It’s the plot for several Bond movies :)
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  136. Oliver, you are an editing gigachad and extremely attractive to all women…and men on the internet.
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  137. Buoys have something like three different pronunciations in English — and the natives believe at least one of them is wrong :)
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  138. There’s a video from Oerlikon/Rheinmetall that shows what their tech can do against swarms of small drones. It takes a couple of seconds to kill all 8-12 drones in the swarm at a distance of a couple km. There is another that’s shows what they can with precision-tracked high-powered lasers… it takes less than a minute to overheat a drone and destroy it without firing a single shot. The West has been preparing for drone warfare for quite some time…
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  139.  @iare19  I am ashamed of our behaviour in the EU back in the 90’s. We pressured you to not kick them them out and that was a disgrace.
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  140.  @spxram4793  Poland was extremely mismanaged when it was independent. The “Russian” parts were also extremely mismanaged. The German and Austrian parts were very well managed — and even today have better roads, railways, houses, etc. Hungary was only hard hit in the sense that huge areas that weren’t at all Hungarian and didn’t want to be Hungarian no longer were Hungarian. Sure, a few Hungarian minorities remained in Romania, but that was about it. In all other respects, Germany was far harder hit.
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  141.  @spxram4793  those who had better under Russia’s thumb had very different opinions than those who had been under German rule. The extreme Polish nationalism of the time was largely on the “Russian” side. Later sentiments had more to do with what people were taught in schools than with historical facts.
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  142. They did win the winter war. They sort of lost the continuation war, unfortunately. The only real help they got there was from the Nazis whom they then double-crossed so they had to shoot their way out of Finland.
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  143.  @stefthorman8548  a large part of the German political spectrum is anti-defense (and secretly or not so secretly funded by the Soviets/Russia).
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  144. No, he is just very misinformed... and lazy.
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