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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