Comments by "Mitch Young" (@mitchyoung93) on "DW News" channel.

  1. I remember when Russian civilian aircraft would stop flying in two weeks...that was predicted three months ago. I remember when the Ruble would be worth .001 USD, that too was three months ago. I remember when Russia would run out of cruise missiles...again three months ago. This whole war has been covered in the most propagandistic way.
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  2.  @brandenburgquentinthe3rd532  Mass immigration doesn't help the economy for the people of the receiving country. Just makes housing more expensive and negatively impacts infrastructure. Sure, some rich people benefit from low wages in services and manufacturing, but not the mass of the people.
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  3.  @marsultor6131  No, the EU has trade barriers...that's what it is all about, a protected trading bloc. The EU could have agreed to an amiable divorce and continued trading with the UK without barriers, but it valued its political power more. Think about it, the dude's cheese is no different now than before...why does it need a special certificate?
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  4. I think peaceful resolution of the situation showed strength and wisdom on the part of Putin. Esp. since he knows that the West wants bloodshed between Russians. And btw we don't have to imagine...there was a general amnesty for Confederate soldiers after the Civil War.
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  5. 'Interpreting the developing news' didn't pose a challenge at all for Western MSM ...including state media like this German channel. They had a script and went with it, even after events (a peaceful resolution in 36 hours) showed that script to be malarkey.
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  6. Brigadi Rossi
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  7.  @anonymous-hz2un  These aren't Russians that want to move to Finland. Russians mostly went to Finland for cheaper shopping and returned. Finns went to Russia for cheap alcohol and returned.
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  8. ​ @serebii666 Everything I've seen even from apolitical or tacitly anti Putin vloggers is that after some initial difficulties Vkusno I Tochka matches McDs to a very near degree.
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  9. Similar, but I'd say the more exact analogy is to the calling up of National Guard units during the Iraq war, at least that's my understanding of what is going on. You won't get the truth from the Western media that's for sure.
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  10.  @Gopferteckel  Serbia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan my disagree (yeah I know the last two weren't 'official' NATO actions, but c'mon man!)
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  11. LOL, I saw a video from Vladimir (the city) with interviews about the guy. Most people didn't care, those that had an opinion were 2 for, 4 against. One guy didn't even know who Navalny was.
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  12. Omg two dudes share a moment of levity in a two hour interview...how unprofessional!
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  13.  @sergeyb8  Then link one. And BTW she is not a Russian official but rather an employee of state media, just like the presenter here.
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  14. You cannot send tanks across a border, but NATO can.
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  15. The vast amount of the Russian gains took place before the Intel shut-off
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  16. Okay that was pretty funny even for me...a guy who supports Russia.
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  17. @19Szabolcs91 Latvia is the country losing population the fastest in the EU. There were more 'Latvians' in the USSR than there are now.
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  18.  @davidjones6389  Yeah, and so did those 'exercises' with US forces.
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  19. @jimjam6510 My fellow American, you obviously didn't read deeply enough. In the scope of history it is the Europeans who have invaded Russian lands repeatedly. The Poles and Lithuanians, the Swedes with Charles XII (they are still made about his defeat at Poltava), much of Europe under Napoleon (Poles again, troops from what is now Germany and Italy), the British and French in the Crimean war, the British and US after the Bolshevik revolution, and of course you know who from 1941-1945 helped by the Romanians, Bulgarians etc.
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  20. Quite some coincidences there.
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  21.  @Darthdog4957  Slavic speakers are quite native to the area that is now 'Estonia', and especially to Narva where they are concentrated.
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  22. This isn't 1991, boomer.
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  23. Cope.
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  24. @matrixberzins465 Latvian demography is horrid in general, I very much doubt that currently that of Russian speakers in Latvia is worse than of native so-called Latvians (a national identity language cobbled together from 3-4 groups and dialects in the 19th century). It may be the case that it appears worse because yes, there are a lot of younger (then) Russian speakers who returned to Russia/the Ukraine/Belarus after 1991 so there are a lot of Russian speaking pensioners now, but I'll bet that of the younger Russian speaking families that remain, their fertility is at or above the general level for 'Latvia' as a whole.
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  25. @veex48 Why? We in the US have to care for immigrants from Central America and South America, Mexico doesn't. At least that is the liberal line.
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  26. What's a ukraine?
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  27. What's courageous about it?
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  28. @Frivolvin Pashinyan himself 'recognized' Artsakh as Azeri territory...what is Russia supposed to do?
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  29.  @reddix435  LOL, the language of Tolstoy and Dostoyevski and Checkov will be usuless...sure we will just replace that literature with the great works of Latvian literary giants like...uh...
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  30.  @karliskokorevics6902  But you were part of the Russian empire for a hundred years...why didn't you learn Russian? And btw 'Latvian' is recently constructed, as is 'Latvia'. Look on old maps and the area...not a state but just a region...is called Livonia. But Livonian is now extinct and wasn't even related to what is now called 'Latvian.
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  31. @wzrd9s The will ignore them or change the rules and 'norms'...like they did in France.
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  32. Take a look at what happened to Russia in the 1990s and then how the country has turned around. Yes, Putin cares about his country and people, far more than typical Western leaders.
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  33. ​ @chickendinner5572 It was 3am local time. This was basically an old troop carrier used as a cargo ship. Why would there be more than a guard or two on board?
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  34.  @tapio_m6861  The Russian speaking population pays taxes...probably more taxes than Estonian speakers as the east is more developed.
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  35.  @aleksandraslisauskas2871  There was no 'Latvia' when the Russian Empire took over the area from the Swedish Empire.
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  36. Yuri looks nervous. The Russian gains in the front must be worrying him.
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  37. Wait, one woman travelled to two other countries, the other tries to squash speculation? LOL
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  38.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  And yet the missiles still keep coming.
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  39. ​ thegarfield2414  Your biggest export is women
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  40. Why would Russian speaking people from regions where most are native Russian speakers fight for a Ukrainian state that won't recognize their fundamental right to use their native language in official settings and to be educated in that language?
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  41. I will give Western state run media some credit. They are propagandistic but eventually reality will get so 180 degrees out from The Narrative they will have to correct course somewhat.
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  42.  @Hans-gb4mv  Blah blah blah. If the EU wanted the benefits of free trade it could have them with the UK or any country. Instead it acted like a raging spouse after the other spouse said he/she wants a divorce, spitefully, fighting over the children and the vacation home. This despite the fact that the EU charter has article 51 which is supposed to let nations who change their mind out, amicably.
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  43.  @miko007  I think they will be okay.
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  44.  @MyPrideFlag  Since it was a secret meeting how do you know what the proposals are?
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  45. @CashMacGregor Worse than a bully is the little kid that thinks he can smart off to everyone because he has a bigger bully for a brother.
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  46.  @estsimulator2181  It was far higher, like ten percent. And the growth came from industrialization primarily in the East. There just weren't enough 'Estonians' to industrialize the area.
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  47. Frankly this sounds like a Reichstag fire moment for the current German government. It will be interesting to see what actual 'evidence' is produced.
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  48.  @jbbeiser983  Nah, just has a Ukranian flag there up on his shelf.
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  49. We cam only dream of this kind of articulate and wise commentary in the US of A.
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  50. The 'trade barriers' are the EUs.
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