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

  1.  @mikkelv7020 No, he is absolutely not speaking Swedish! The only Swedish word he used was the name of the TV program "Efterlyst" (Wanted). The stones are standard store-bought stones.
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  2. It has a lot to do with mismanagement of the country over the decades by the Peronist party. The current president is a Peronist. The previous one was not, but he did not have enough support in Parliament to clean up (and arrest the president before him, a Peronist, for corruption and massive abuse of power). Argentina has been run as a semi-dictatorship (but with replaceable strongmen/-women) for almost a century and with very little market economy. Of course they are poor!
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  3.  @MR.ROBOTVOLTRON  “you forced me, because you talked about maybe installing stronger locks one day.”
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  4. China needs ridiculous amounts of electricity and their demand is growing fast. Partly it's because China is still modernizing and growing, partly it's because their factories (and homes) are ridiculously inefficient, largely because electricity is subsidized in many cases. A fun thing to do is to try to calculate how much (total) energy they use per capita and per $ of their (official) GDP and then do the same calculation with electricity and with fossil fuel. You will see that China is very wasteful and get far less out of every joule than a normal Western country does.
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  5.  @Wulfieman  Venezuela wasn’t doing well before Chavez, but he certainly made things a lot worse. Then his chosen successor (a bus driver) made things even worse.
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  6. You think all the voters who wanted this are innocent?
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  7.  @mikkelv7020  you are either incompetent or lying.
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  8. The parliament could just have rejected her... and then the council would have had to nominate someone else. Quite democratic, actually. The European Parliament can also dismiss the entire Commission. All the Commissioners designate also have to be accepted individually by the European Parliament. Again, quite democratic.
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  9. Renewable energy sources are incredibly unreliable, so if you want to rely solely on those, you will have (unpredictable) random energy cuts or you will need to overprovision them to a very high degree. You will need to have wind and solar enough to produce maybe 5-10 times more energy than you need. This is not cheap… Turkey is building nuclear power, which is a very, very good idea.
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  10.  @stunstar4553  a lot of the manufacturing is manufacturing of things used by the construction sector. That means the bubble bursting affects a lot more than just 7-8% of the economy.
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  11. Can't be done without actively shooting Russian planes down. Ukraine doesn't have to capacity to do that. NATO does, but then we would be in a full scale war, much bigger than "just" Ukraine. It makes it much more likely Russia will use nukes.
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  12.  @seamuspadraigsanders431  how come other EU countries can get away with much, much less immigration, if it’s all the EU’s fault?
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  13. Sugar baby, you are obviously not Japanese. How many rubles do you get per post? Have you gotten a raise since the ruble crashed?
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  14.  @channelshalom8914  Plus, if you are a dentist and tell the authorities that the "children" you examine aren't children, they will ignore you. If you then tell the public, they will fire you (and harass you with the legal system).
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  15.  @lv3609  Germany’s dependency on Russian gas stems directly from its overuse of wind/solar. They are unpredictable intermittent energy sources and need to be backstopped with other energy sources that can be turned on and off really fast. That is what Germany uses gas for. It would make much more sense to use nuclear power and zero wind/solar. It would be cheaper, too! For now, restart the nuclear power plants, use more coal (preferably real coal and not nasty lignite), start building those LNG terminals that have been in the planning stage for years, start expanding gas storage, start building more gas pipelines, so it’s easier to share gas with other European countries. Maybe look into using more heat pumps for heating instead of gas.
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  16.  @militantstrawberry  nuclear power is actually quite cheap, when not overburdened by dumb regulations that don’t increase safety one tiny bit. It’s also really fast to build… when not strangled by dumb regulations.
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  17. Restarting their nuclear reactors would be an even smarter move.
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  18.  @yfhello  Should a young single mother have four kids?
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  19.  @Cxs1a3  It's a European channel reporting from a European channel about a war in Europe. How about you tone down your narcissism a bit?
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  20. No, it started long before the European Parliament played much of a role in the EU. It actually started before Sweden joined the EU.
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  21. kinda... the unions fear restructuring of the labor needed for the cars. what about those people who build the engines and gearboxes? the unions don't like to see those jobs disappear.
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  22. Why? So we can have more sophisticated cars without having them cost too much -- and without having too many kilometers of copper wire in each car. A modern car is a LAN (a Local Area Network) of many small computers. That means we don't need separate wires to every light, every button, every sensor, and every motor. We just need power and data lines. We can send a data packet to the right blinkers to make them blink, because the blinkers are controlled by small (and cheap!) computers. We also have computers that control the combustion engine and they are critical for getting more power out of the engine, for making the engine more efficient, and for keeping pollution down. There is simply no way we could have such detailed and precise control of a combustion engine using only mechanical parts -- and if we tried, it would be as complicated as a high-end Patek Philippe watch! Please don't tell me you or any other random guy would be able to repair something like that. Many modern cars still use parts with really old computer designs in them. That's one part of the chip shortage problem: the chip makers don't want to make those old designs anymore. Tesla has been really good at switching to newer designs that are easy to obtain. Another part of the chip shortage is that it takes time to produce these chips and lots of orders were cancelled earlier in the pandemic... chip makers think that is the car makers' problem and not theirs. Tesla didn't cancel their orders...
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  23. Or maybe NOT use renewables so much, since they are the main cause of Germany's extreme reliance on Russian gas. Instead, restart those wonderful, clean nuclear power plants. And start burning more coal! (And build LNG terminals and gas storage facilities really, really fast.)
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  24. About time Germany turned its nuclear power plants back on -- and arrest the "greens" for treason.
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  25.  @Scrungge  that was not a mistake. It was a small simplification. Let’s get those nuclear reactors restarted!
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  26. I’m so sorry that the west pressured you to not kick them out 30 years ago :(
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  27.  @cryostatis3018  Abortion is a local member state issue in the EU. Ireland had a very restrictive abortion law until recently. Was Ireland also going against EU law, then? Germany also has a more restrictive abortion law than Denmark... is Germany therefore going against EU law?
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  28. Multikulti ist gescheitert.
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  29. It has to be someone that the member states can accept AND someone the directly elected Parliament can accept. This is done by having the Council nominate a candidate and having the Parliament vote to accept or reject that candidate. The two obvious candidates were Vestager and Timmermans, both were unacceptable to some of the member states (with good reason). Weber, the candidate who “ought” to have been nominated was a lightweight with zero backing back home in Germany (outside of Bavaria). Von der Leyen is from the correct party (EPP, same as Weber) which got the most votes in the recent European elections, she has broad support and she’s no lightweight.
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  30. Did you notice that he immediately complained about racism? That's not a good look for him :( I immediately lost all sympathy.
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  31. Maybe Smyrna can become Greek again some day.
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  32. We have nukes, too. If Russia uses its nukes, we will turn Russia into a glass desert.
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  33.  @MrGoodsalesman  learn you please an English for great good and make benefit your readers.
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  34. Women and children first. And Ukranians first. And you know what? I was disgusted when the man had the audacity to complain about racism when there's an existential war going on.
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  35. “Just Rhine” is one of the biggest rivers in Europe. In other words, we can’t expect to get much from hydropower. Nuclear, on the other hand, would work really, really great. I hear Germany has several handfuls of spare plants lying around that it doesn’t use…
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  36. No. Evergrande by itself is not. Evergrande + the other 20-50 over leveraged cheating property developers + all the zombie SOEs + all the zombie banks might be.
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  37. Yes. It is called WW3 and only works if Russia loses -- and anybody else survives.
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  38. It can't pay its debts however much it gets forced. The assets simply aren't there.
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  39.  @maclee5381  the first time it was governed properly was after it became Prussian. This was in stark contrast to the part that became Russian, which was mismanaged until 1989.
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  40. Perhaps they should not have chosen to become war criminals?
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  41. Good news, annoying interviewer at the end.
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  42.  @iris1224wwad Baltic and Slavic are fairly closely related, though. We generally don’t know much about groupings of subfamilies within Indo-European, but we know for a fact that there was something we call Balto-Slavic that then split into Baltic and Slavic. Italic and Celtic might once have been Italo-Celtic (we are not sure) but that’s about it.
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  43.  duncansmith7562 The Norse were actually in Greenland before the ancestors of the Inuit.
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  44. France in WW2… and arguably WW1 as well.
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  45. If I were in control they would have been shot already (and Lukashenko killed in a drone strike).
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  46. Needs to be fired *at*...
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  47. Ukraine/Moldova/Georgia will need to change their laws so they match EU law (the acquis communautaire). Only they can do it. We in the EU can’t do it for them.
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  48. Any chance the Netherlands will continue its gas extraction, despite the (absolutely tiny) earthquakes in Groningen? It would really, really help all of us!
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  49.  @vadimmanilenko  Because Germany is full of (fifth column) "pacifists" who are controlled from Moscow. The extent of Russian infiltration in Germany is incredible :(
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  50.  @cravingtuna1561  it was crystal clear even back then that he was mismanaging the Economy.
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