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

  1.  @windowslogo3577 something that is almost always taught wrong in the west. We are taught that Germany used a few Germans in Czechoslovakia as an excuse for an invasion. It wasn’t a few, it was several millions. And they were being treated bad and they should never have been included in Czechoslovakia. The Sudetenland should instead have been made part of Austria after the dissolution of the Austria-Hungarian Empire. There was no respect for the “self-determination of Nations”. It was all about weakening Germany/A-H. Even the creation of Czechoslovakia seems to have been a bad idea. The Czechs and the Slovaks had never been administered together before and the Czechs ended up lording it over the rural and less educated Slovaks. That is important to understand why the Slovaks made a dumb deal with Hitler (that Hitler immediately broke). It is also usually not taught that the British Empire wasn’t ready for a war. It had disarmed, had a low arms production, and it’s population was strongly opposed to anything that sounded even slightly militaristic after the horrors of WW1. Chamberlain agreed to Germany’s (quite reasonable!) demands — while kicking up arms production fiercely. It is thanks to Chamberlain that Churchill could do what he did a few years later.
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  2. The house damage and the earthquakes have been blown completely out of proportion. I’ve seen videos purporting to show how “terrible” it is… and they show a solitary house with a crack because it wasn’t built right, while all the neighboring houses are still perfectly intact. Foundations matter, and if they aren’t done right you get cracks whether or not there are (absolutely tiny) earthquakes.
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  3.  @johnkochen7264  I don’t believe you. I know something about houses — and your physics name dropping doesn’t intimidate me. I know something about physics, too.
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  4.  @ValleysOfRain  yes, we should move nuclear power immediately. Surely, you agree if you are so smart and knowledgeable.
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  5. 6:35 "Having more people to start with simple means having more people later on as more people are available to reproduce". Really?! Somebody doesn't understand exponential growth, apparently. Or carrying capacity... or how the carrying capacity is deeply influenced by the available technology.
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  6. It isn't Russian and it never was. Let's hope the occupiers can be kicked out soon!
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  7. If the Republic of India is a country, then so is the European Union. It looks a lot like a country with laws ("directives"), a parliament, a court, a government ("commission"), a president, ministries ("directorates-general"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutions_of_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agencies_of_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Civil_Service#Directorates-General It sort of has a foreign policy, including embassies (that are called "representations" because the EU is totally not a country): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Foreign_and_Security_Policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_External_Action_Service Note how the US, Russia, India and China all have a super important embassy in Brussels that just happens to be really, really big? And that there is a big and important "representation" in Washington, Moscow, New Delhi, and Beijing as well? The EU military is not entirely coordinated yet. Almost all of it is under national control -- but that was also the case in Germany when WWI started (Germany then consisted of 25+ states/territories/cities) and we would definitely call Imperial Germany a country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Military_Staff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Battlegroup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_European_Union Satellite support is really important these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Satellite_Centre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency#EU_and_the_European_Space_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESTRACK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus_Programme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation) Practically all the satellite/space stuff is dual-use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology France et al are still keeping some of the spy sat technology to themselves (but will undoubtedly share info with the rest of EU if need be): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(satellite) Pleiades is just one example. And there is the money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro#Direct_and_indirect_usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_System_of_Central_Banks We even have vassals/protectorates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Representative_for_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Police_Mission_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUFOR_Althea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Special_Representative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Rule_of_Law_Mission_in_Kosovo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Interim_Administration_Mission_in_Kosovo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_operations_of_the_European_Union Actually, I think the EU is probably more of a country these days than India is.
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  8. Nathanael Sallhag Eriksson -- you might want to check some of those links...
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  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union
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  10. Laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_(European_Union) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_law Immigration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Regulation One of the reasons why immigration isn't more integrated is that some countries (Germany, Sweden) are unrealistic do-gooders with insane immigration policies, most other European countries just have really, really bad immigration policies (but not as insane as Germany/Sweden) and Eastern Europe really doesn't see the "enrichment" of Muslims and Africans (and all available statistics agree). As long as our international/European courts are so full of activist judges, I don't see how responsible countries can give them a bigger say in their immigration policies. Education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_Process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_policies_and_initiatives_of_the_European_Union The Bologna Process is not strictly an EU thing (but we are the main drivers of it -- not unlike Schengen, where Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland also joined).
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  11. Nathanael Sallhag Eriksson -- not every country looks like Sweden. Berlin has its own government, Bruxelles has its own government. Åland has home rule. Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales have their own parliaments but they are still part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation#European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_state The European Union didn't start out as a country and it may not yet quite be one but it has been moving in that direction since its founding. Everybody knows that many of its citizens (maybe even the majority) don't like that so they stick to a polite fiction that the EU is totally not a country. Real countries have flags (oops), laws (oops), courts (oops), military (oops), foreign policies (oops), environmental protection agencies (oops), central banks (oops), passports (oops), ... But we don't have stamps! ;) You rightly say that we don't have an official language/a common language (two different things). But a) countries do not need to have official languages. The USA doesn't have one. And they can have more than one (Switzerland, Belgium, South Africa, India, etc.). It is also quite normal for federated states to have decentralized education -- the US Department of Education wasn't founded until 1979, for example. It is also quite normal for countries to have areas/territories in which not all laws apply -- Svalbard is an obvious example for Norway. That all EU member states have various opt outs and special cases doesn't mean that EU law isn't a thing. It is also quite normal to have separatist movements in countries. Think of the Scottish National Party and the referendum they had in 2014. Northern Ireland had a long low intensity civil war about independence. Corsica, the Basque country, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence_referendum,_2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles This list is not entirely serious -- Bornholm does not have a serious independence movement -- but it is a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_movements_in_Europe Finally, there is no hard and fast rule about one to one correspondence between countries and currencies. The real world is far more complicated than that. China consists of mainland China (using the yuan/renminbi), Macau (Macanese pataca), and Hong Kong (Hong Kong dollar). There are countries with an official currency but with widespread use of US dollars and/or Euros (Zimbabwe!). There are also countries in which different territories nominally use different currencies which Just Happen to have a 1:1 exchange rate (kroner in Denmark/Greenland/Faroe Islands, 117 different kinds of pounds for the UK and dependencies).
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  12. I think you should stop talking and start reading. The world is vast and most of it looks very little like Sweden. (sed --> said, countrys --> countries, propper --> proper, "doesn't" should be "don't" because you use it with a plural subject.)
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  13. Nathanael Sallhag Eriksson -- you can't both ask for documentation and complain that it is too hard to read.
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  14.  @jaredjosephsongheng372 Israel had prepared for that war and the Arab countries hadn’t. Israel provoked something it could pretend was an attack and then it employed its massive “defense” forces and executed its “defense” plan with all its “defensive” weapons. It even destroyed an American SIGINT ship in the neighbourhood and the US did what it was told and covered it up.
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  15. I don’t think Russian bribes count as funding under that law.
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  16.  @jamegumb7298 A shame that we forced the Baltics to keep their Russians. They should have been thrown into labour camps and the survivors after ten years kicked out. The language laws were very, very mild: learn the language to get citizenships + education is in our language, not the language of the colonizers.
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  17. The French Resistance were practically all Communist nutters who wanted to turn France into a Communist dictatorship... that's why there was so much sympathy for the Germans in France (all parts) during the war. (By "much" I don't mean a majority -- but there was much more than you'd think for a country that was occupying part of France and had turned the rest into an impotent vassal state.)
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  18.  @milesdyson5211  botski, you should take your schizo meds.
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  19.  @taxirob2248  no, it is not at all “highly subjective”. It is not even slightly subjective.
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  20.  @d.l.d.l.8140 no, it’s just something we say in the west. It doesn’t exist in Chinese.
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  21. And yet... the German Empire was famous for its peacefulness before WW1. Germany did not start that war. Austria did not start that war. Blame Serbia for operating a terror cell inside Austria-Hungary that assassinated the Crown Prince. Blame France and Russia for mobilizing (which according to international law at the time was a declaration of war). Blame Belgium for not allowing Germany to defend itself in time (the war could have been over in two weeks!). Blame the UK for piling on and preventing it from being a short war that Germany and Austria would have won. Blame the US for piling on later and preventing it from being a stalemate. Do not fall for 108-year-old war propaganda from the winning side.
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  22.  @vercot7000  I don't trust Germans when they claim someone is a Neo-Nazi. It is usually an utter lie told by a Communist.
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