Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "UATV English" channel.

  1. That IS how they got East Germany, isn’t it?
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  2. He is still alive but got an 18-year sentence for his "crimes".
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  3. 1) that only happened in the west, 2) it was more leftist/Communist than anti authoritarian (and heavily promoted by Moscow), 3) it only happened because Germany lost and the west was occupied for years. To take another random country, has France ever admitted that 1) it started WW1 together with Russia, 2) that it was wrong to do so, 3) that the Versailles treaty was evil, 4) that Germany was right to demilitarize the Rhineland, 5) that France invaded Germany twice after WW1?
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  4. It’s also about mechanics and all the infrastructure to support the planes. The pilots and the planes themselves are the least part.
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  5. If you use a colon instead of a dot, the time stamp becomes clickable: 0:22.
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  6. Geneva is perhaps not a good choice as long as the Swiss choose to be “neutral”.
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  7. Deserve’s got nothing to do with it. They need to implement EU law before they can join — and they have barely started.
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  8. Let’s see if Turkey plays ball or not. I almost hope they don’t so they can be kicked OUT of NATO. It’ll take a while to get Ukraine in. Russia has to be defeated first.
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  9. Ukraine needs to implement the Acquis -- and do something about its oligarchs. The anti-corruption laws have to actually be enforced. That's not something the EU can do for them. It's up to Ukraine.
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  10. Si vis pacem, para bellum…
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  11. Assembled in China. Almost all the things that make them valuable come from outside of China… and I’m not just talking about the software.
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  12. No. Orban himself also needs to allow it in writing ("Presidential assent") and then Hungary needs to deposit its official written permission ("instruments of ratification"), which -- knowing Orban -- could take months. After that, Sweden needs to deposit its "instrument of accession", which will happen nearly instantly. Hopefully, there will be a punishment process after that where Turkey and Hungary get their just deserts.
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  13.  @idaadamovic3387 Slovenia? Surely you mean Yugoslavia or Austria-Hungary? Or maybe Italy, if you are from the area around Trieste?
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  14.  @moonfly1  A demilitarized zone 200 km wide along the border (on the Russian side) would be a good idea.
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  15.  @user-rz5di8fv9x no, in this case it is like the people of Ireland speaking English. The Irish don’t want to switch back to Gaelic and the Ukrainians don’t want to switch back to Ukrainian…
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  16. On the other hand, you want warlords like him to survive long enough to start a civil war in Russia… if need be.
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  17.  @andrewbrachio616  no, not true. That’s the reason why the Communist dictatorship didn’t fall, not the reason why they have a country. If the Communists had fallen, the Soviet Union would have fallen apart but it’s constituent countries would not. And there would have been no Cold War, no Mao, no Communist China, no Korean War, No Vietnam War… likely also no Castro and no crazy Nicaragua and Venezuela and no stupid proxy wars in Africa.
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  18.  @texasray5237  the US was on the right side in the Vietnam War. They were not fighting “Vietnam”, they were fighting a Communist rebellion that tried to take over all of Vietnam. The Communists ended up winning (after the US left) and the result predictably became a nasty, poor Communist dictatorship for the whole country.
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  19. A lot of the poorer and more disorganized part of the world is firmly in Russia's pocket. Don't expect anything like this to happen until Russia is much weaker.
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  20. Council of Europe — NOT the EU. They are two very different things! (The thumbnail is wrong.)
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  21.  @TankandDimples oil missing from the international market => higher prices in the international market. That’s why made a cap on Russian oil prices instead of just embargoing their oil exports. Fairly basic supply and demand…
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  22. I don't. Ukraine needs to implement the Acquis and that's it. That cannot be negotiated away or swept under the carpet with some nice words. The ball is entirely in Ukraine's court.
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  23.  @brentjamescollins9731  Ukraine has done around 5% of what it needs to do. As you may have gathered by now, Ukrainians like to use big words about the future that might not entirely match reality. We like them and most of us want them in the Union, but Ukraine is the one dragging its feet, not us. The situation with NATO is different: everybody knows they can’t join until the war is won, but we need to discuss now when/if we want them as members and what to do until they can join. Maybe some sort of semi-membership with security guarantees until Turkey/Hungary/France/Germany grow up and let them in. Most of us would be very happy to see them in NATO.
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  24.  @karliskokorevics6902 forgot? No, they aided and abetted them!
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  25. Vladivostok is Korean.
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  26.  @dvuemedia  yep. Marconi used stolen designs by Tesla for his wireless transmission across the Atlantic.
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  27. Russia returned a few for propaganda purposes — “look, we saved those children from bombardment from the evil Ukrainians”. Almost all the kidnapped children are still in Russia :(
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  28.  @EaSyDerErste  nope. We are talking about the English subtitles for the Ukrainian interviewer. YouTube doesn’t translate what he says into English. It only creates autogenerated subtitles for the American interviewee. The subtitles in English for the interviewer are burned into the video… YouTube doesn’t know about them.
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  29. We in the EU can’t implement Ukrainian law for them, you know that right? Ukraine needs to implement the Acquis Communautaire before it can join and it has barely started. (Google is your friend if you don’t know what “Acquis” means.)
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  30. That was a person :( -- modern AI text to speech voices are much, much better.
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  31. There will be plenty of Zelensky statues at some point in the future. Now is not the time.
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  32. Putin hasn’t been elected for more than a decade.
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  33. Hi, bot. How’s the weather in St. Petersburg these days? Still got enough medicine for grandpa? Can you still afford to buy real food or can you only afford buckwheat now?
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  34. Maybe Samsøe & Samsøe sent them some more t-shirts — it’s an expensive Danish brand.
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  35. It happened a month or two ago and was of course not representative in the slightest. They have been ignored in the Western press (as they should) but I suppose they can be effective anti-propaganda weapons somewhere.
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  36.  @Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo  Add anti-nuclear “environmentalists” to the list.
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  37.  @Kajpaje  I agree with the German guy: please write in a language you know.
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  38. Ridding the world of Pol Pot was the only good thing the Vietnamese Communists ever did.
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  39. Any country with a university has those, bot.
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  40.  @tnaplastic2182  they deny having labs that produce weapons… because they don’t.
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  41. Lula would be in jail in a real democracy.
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  42. They can’t be admitted until Russia is defeated. Those are the rules.
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  43.  @bungalowjuice7225  they do, but US politics is very sectarian :( The Democrats throw all sorts of accusations at the Republicans (most of them lies) and the Republicans throw all sorts of accusations at the Democrats (most of them true).
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  44.  @Northman-from-the-North  just the parts they stole from us.
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  45. Yeah, the interpreter did not do a good job :( Ukraine can do better (and it would help the spread of its message a lot if it did better).
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  46. At least Russian has vowels ;)
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  47. “Tall”? You mean long, right?
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  48.  @Ed0Carnby  perhaps Fox is more trustworthy on some things and MSNBC more trustworthy on others? And perhaps it even changes over time? (Fox lied a lot about the Iraq war, MSNBC lied a lot about Trump and the “peaceful riots” and other Democrat issues.)
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  49.  @paulking7019 fracking for the win :) One of the few things to thank W for!
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  50.  @TheJosep70  your grandfather fought for a communist dictatorship, unfortunately. It’s like being proud of having a nazi grandfather.
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  51. The US was not the aggressor there. Viet Cong was.
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  52. True, but the Gregorian calendar was Catholic (after the Protestant Reformation + named after the pope that introduced it). The Protestant countries adopted it a century or two later and the Orthodox countries even later -- except for religious purposes.
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  53. And you have lots of dumb voters in Hungary as well. Your elections are still relatively free so if they weren’t there, he would be gone immediately.
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  54. Not his business. He (SpaceX) is just a consumer… and they are likely far too expensive for displaced Ukrainians at 50k$ each.
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  55. Prime minister, not president. And he did it because the party that had been in power for a decade had turned TVP into a party propaganda channel paid for by the taxpayers. Sure, TVP World was on Ukraine’s side but there was a lot they “forgot” to say because that would damage the reputation of the previous ruling party. For example, the border crossings between Poland and Ukraine were blocked by Polish truck drivers and farmers for months. That cost Ukraine a lot of money. It also slowed down the weapons and ammunition aid to Ukraine.
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  56.  @brentjamescollins9731  The Acquis Communautaire. Basically all the EU law, which has to implemented as national law in Ukraine. You can’t become a member without implementing almost all of it. We allow for some exceptions here and there + gradual implementation over many years in some cases — that’s what the negotiations are about — but Ukraine has so much work to do here that whatever it implements in the next few years won’t take it from “almost no acquis” to anywhere close to the things that can be negotiated. The ball is in Ukraine’s court, not ours. Wikipedia has pages about Ukraine’s accession to the EU and about he Acquis and about previous EU enlargements. There are timetables so you can see how long previous negotiations took and how long it took for other countries to implement the Acquis.
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  57.  @heyidiots.  nope. You don’t know what you are talking about.
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  58. Why on Earth should Poland get it? Poland has stolen enough land from Germany already, why let them steal more?
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  59. The Anti-Nuclear lobby in Germany is largely a Soviet/Russian creation. The enormous dependency on Russian pipelined gas is due to both outright corruption (Schröder) and the strength of the "Green" movement in Germany, largely due to Soviet/Russian influence. And then there is Die Linke... and unfortunately also lots of AfD members who have been influence (in very different ways) by Russian misinformation.
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  60. Moldova/Romania was not exactly Turkish, of course.
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  61. Supporting Russia — which is what India is really doing — might turn out to be much more expensive for India…
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  62. You should only feel bad for the 20-30% good Russians.
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