Comments by "irresistablejewel" (@irresistablejewel) on "DW News" channel.

Needs to keep Ukraine in the news; since America has other wars springing up; they already shelled this plant (and tried to blame that on Russia).
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Money in a bank legally belongs to the bank. If government just takes it, this would destroy any trust (left) in the banking system.
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@sarahbrown5073 Financial "securities" are supposed to be secure (it's in the name); the value of some investments may go up, or down; some securities don't pay interest, but if government changes the rules and confiscates them nobody (in their right mind) is going to buy them. In response to the initial proposal, China sold back around half a trillion of American government debt (gilts); if the proposal becomes reality, countries will dump the lot. Looking at the level of American national debt; it should be obvious, by now, that the people making proposals like this haven't a clue (about the long-term ramifications).
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@petershaw6346 Russian forces have occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant since 2022; later on Ukraine shelled it, claiming it was Russia (shelling their own troops??). The plant was designed and built by Russia and they occupy it... same question, why would they set their house on fire?
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@mark-ish Then America & EU should change the name of their "securities" to something more accurate, as they are obviously not secure investments.
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The Moon and the tides are being given a lot of the credit; but removing 20,000 tons of sand and an additional two tugs, I've no doubt, helped a bit... Unloading thousands of containers (plan 3) I can't see how that's done. More powerful tugs is one proposed solution, placed bow and stern... but the tension in the cabling will be immense, a failure would be catastrophic; it's possible container ships have simply become too large. 6 days; job done...mammoth task; but the investigation will take a long time... it wasn't just a sandstorm.
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Oh come on... the leaks just confirm what is fairly common knowledge: that those behind the American government are double-dealing warmongers who are diverting millions and billions in what China already described as an American power game; that if the UK "tries it on" again Russia will sink their battleship; the guilty people are those who blew up Nordstream2, because by attacking mainland Europe they want to expand the conflict. These leaks may well save life, those covert operations are not conducted by "innocent people"; those who denied direct American involvement were lying to us (as if the billions donated so far wasn't enough of a clue) and their (well our) investment is in trying to start WW3. The "unprovoked" war by Russia indeed... direct conflict with a nuclear superpower... I expect the neo-Con warmongers lies to eventually find them out, so the leaks only help (us, not them).
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Funny; I used the same quote by Mark Twain today, regarding some of the stories the Western media has been publishing (Russia blowing up those German/ Russian undersea pipelines, instead of just turning them off at the tap; when the Ukraine conflict started (actually around 2014) and I find it difficult to find a reliable narrator when even the financial papers have moved into the war strategy business. It may well be that Russia isn't trying to be helpful when it comes to providing figures to outside bodies; it's hardly unusual for the media to "tell it the way the government wants", in time of war; or "lie by omission"; but it's not Russia providing info for those daily war updates, they don't like the Western media, and judging by some of the obvious lies the msm have published so far it's clear that they are not a reliable source. It would seem to me that if a country has vast resources of oil and gas (and food) that it's unlikely to go bankrupt (even by Western economist's standards); it seems since the EU can't or won't pay in Roubles and with the G7 trying to tell Russia what price to sell it's oil; the EU has none and both China and India get (relatively) cheap oil. Is it not more of a concern that the whole Western economy is suffering a contraction? Our leaders can't even run this economy; they look either corrupt or incompetent (to me); so listening to them trying to tell other countries to do things their way seems frankly ridiculous. If you are saying (Prof) that Russia is making things up; I could well believe that, but here in the West this: hysteria; misinformation and the latest "cause" seems more dangerous; with lies going right around the world before truth gets it's boots on... It's clear America wants war; is that not the truth?
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@PierreDeuge That's a rather lazy reply; really it's you that lacks originality; Russian forces have occupied this plant since 2022 and Ukraine previously shelled it (claiming Russia did it). I'm not Russian, or a bot; I just know that the current Ukrainian government are often strangers to the truth. I expect they are concerned funding will dry up... anyway the fire is out now.
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@petershaw6346 Only they did, on 19th and 20th Nov 2022; this has been widely reported. It occurred after Russian troops occupied this Nuclear power-station; it seems highly unlikely Russia would shell it's own troops, then it must have been Ukrainian forces. The UN were not at all happy about this; it's outlawed by their Protocol 1; since Chernobyl is out of commission for around 10,000 years it was obviously a serious issue. The nuclear power and weaponry is all Russian technology; Ukraine kept the power stations, the weapons were decommissioned; but if possession is 9/10th's of the law, that might have changed. Any reason Russia would attack it's own troops (again)? I can't see one.
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@petershaw6346 That's according to the Ukrainian ministry, who also claim over 8000 tanks destroyed (when by Pentagon estimates Russia had just under 3000 tanks in 2022) and also (occasionally) that Ukraine is winning; I view their claims as "ambitious". There was a stage in the war where a private military group were given Russian prisoners serving life sentences; I'm told they were offered an amnesty if they survived six months on the front line. (Speaking cynically, it's likely a better thing for Russian society if they did not) One source for that prior attack on the nuclear facility was Wiki (forgot to mention that). I think you'll find (despite media opinion here) Russia: has a professional army; over a million troops in reserve and does not target fellow Slavs intentionally (unless in uniform). There's a lot we are not being told; like the real reasons America is so heavily "invested"; Russia's plan seems to be to trash that, so they switched the nuclear facility off (in 2022).
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@petershaw6346 Tanks 8,421; armored combat vehicles 16,294; artillery 16,384; plus another 22,148 vehicles & fuel tanks. (Ukrainian ministry figures, as of August 6th) There's something distinctly odd about these "figures from the ministry" (of course both sides aren't publishing their own losses), but some just accept them without question.
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@petershaw6346 From what I can find: Russia has raised the age of conscription: to 70 for senior officers; from 45 up to 55 for combat troops (UK 43 is upper limit); while quite a few that could be "called up" in Russia and Ukraine have left their respective countries (which in my view is a sensible enough course of action, or rather inaction). In my travels I've met plenty of people avoiding "national service"; the last Tory government proposed reintroducing this; I sometimes get the feeling they were trying to lose. The are some unanswered questions tho'. What has Ukraine, or Russia, ever done for us? Why is America so heavily invested in Eastern Europe? Why does the UK keep getting involved in American led conflicts? The answers I believe are: nothing; nothing; money and money for the arms lobby. In the last UK general election (July 4th) the choice was war or war; but due to years of budget cuts, I'd strongly advise PM Starmer not to get the UK "left holding the baby".
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@petershaw6346 If you mean the link to military action, in and around the Zaporizhzhia NPP; try "Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis" (Wiki) I don't see why anyone would expect Russia to provide helpful info; it seems clear enough Russia never had 8K tanks and that Jake "Bore" is just a company man, selling hatred. Also I know for a fact that a lot of what he publishes is not true; he's never even been to Ukraine (by his own admission); I think the Soviet utopian vision can be seen in VDNK. It really isn't good to go marching off to war for the wrong reasons; the foreign corporations moved into Ukraine to make profit; there is none to be had now. They lost.
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Destroying Nordstream2 was an act of war, but it's what America wants (war), anyway that drone won't be targeting any more weddings.
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There is another problem, separation (hydrostatics). If the gap between the bottom of the vessel and the bottom of canal is narrow, it tends to create vortexes; the faster the vessel is moving the stronger they get and they have a tendency to draw the ship towards the bottom. There aren't really any good scenarios crashing into the bottom of a canal; by the looks of this vessel it is unusually wide and has a flat bottom so it's creating turbulence but if you require a vessel to carry thousands of containers, it's the only design that fits (just). The investigation will get to the bottom of this (pun intended); but it will most likely take months and only their decision will count for anything; it may be that container ships are simply too big, (220,000 tons gross tonnage. Wow!)
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Technically that is: American-born; now British; hedge-fund manager; Bill Browder's purpose in life: he's a critic of both Russia and China and he will be at the Munich Security Council event largely because that's what "the Globalists" want to hear and us to hear. When operating in Russia his billion dollar hedge-fund was buying into companies like Gazprom (when it was illegal to do so); he accused these companies of fraud and corruption; the Russia government accused him of fraud and corruption and while I don't know what three "wrongs" add up to; but the upshot was Russia deported him and confiscated around $230 Million (back taxes they claimed). It seems clear Bill Browder likes money; doesn't much care how he gets it and he reminds me very much of Frank Abagnale. You see; if you have a billion dollars (or 4.5) in Russia, in the 1990's, there is something distinctly odd going on. Either he was buying into Russian infrastructure on behalf of another government, or he was money laundering; I can't find another explanation for what he was doing. Even though he's now British; I think he works for one or another American agencies and has moved into the public relations (PR) business. I doubt he's been invited for hedge fund advice, since his London company is about £5 million in debt; but if you hate Russia and China (as we are increasingly encouraged to do); he's the "go-to" guy. I don't like this individual, because I don't regard him as honest and I would not do business with him. As for Russia and China; they do things their way and I doubt they'll take lectures from a country $33 Trillion in debt that leaves their people living on the streets. It seems foreign interests had gained control of Ukrainian agriculture and a gas pipeline; they got their fingers caught in the till (like Bill); so no money for them.
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Great! Then there should be no problem with a Scottish referendum for independence from a UK government that gifts millions to anything American led while there are: foodbanks; student debt (12% interest) and all the profits will be found in Panama. Boris and his cronies trying to get the UK into WW3; his incompetent foreign secretary (doesn't even understand geography) and yes he does remind me of Churchill... yeah the talking dog on the insurance advert; self absorbed and now a word from Boris... buy our guns oh yes yes yes yes....
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"The Russians dumped fuel on the drone, now why would they do that?" 🤔 They have a lot of fuel; it wasn't a balloon, it knows who blew up Nordstream2... something like that.
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