Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

Spain? Not so sure. Yet I was really surprised when I discovered my country - Latvia, is perfectly comparable to Portugal or even at a bit better position. I guess decades of dictatorship and unnecessary expanses of colonial warfare hurt them just as badly as Soviet occupation impacted us. P.S. Yes, 2008-2009 were really tough. Technically I was not unemployed, but my income drooped over 3 times, from a really good monthly income to basically working for food - the minimal wage of 160 Lats (around twice that in $ - 320 USD).
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@dimon-livansky Either tricky or easier, since some portion of Russian speaking people (not just Russians) chose not to become full citizens, they can't vote, thus politicians can pretty much ignore them - those non-citizens do not impact elections.
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So, SA has neither a strong state (centralisation, formalised clear laws, division of power, independent judicial system etc), nor guaranteed property rights Well, in that case thei are screwed. Add to that global climate change.
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"Airbus" might be younger as a company, but it includes many other parts with much longer history and a lot of experience, like "Messerschmitt" and "Blohm" and others, like numerous French companies.
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vlad wick LoL, "espects womens rights" = treat them like shit, like anyone else in China. Also, what about so called "lost" or "surplus" men? Around 67 millions of them 8n China, who are there due to disparity between numbers of men and woman. And why is that? Because of selective abortions, girls are considered lesser people. And now sons of those :smart" parents will never find a couple... unless they get girls from abroad, emigrate themselves or are gay.
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vlad wick Uh, good old whataboutism! "Don't question me, look at others!" All proto-fascist really-really love to use it, including Trump.
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@Abdullah well, being associated with retarded, almost medieval culture and some of the world's most aggressive and violent religions has its downsides.
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Waging war now was a stupid idea. Age of conscription in Russia is 18-27, but the group with the least people in it are ages 22-24 - the consequences of insane loss of life in WWII (there is a gap in demographic structure of Russia sen around every 25 years - one generation), one such gap happened in 1990s, when due to hardship of social and economic changes, already lesser generation gave birth to fewer than usual kids, and that smaller generation born from late 1990s to early 2000s is now of the age of conscription. This means, that a war waged now, instead of around 2030-2035 will have much more dare consequences for demographics - it will dig even wider and deeper hole in Russian demographic structure. Even worse - Putin has dealt a blow to Russian demographics twice - now and by waging Second Chechen war - during previous demographic gap.
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Republic of Korea and Japan not willing to become closer allies is plain dumb. Who cares what has happened in the past?! Even if your ancestors were sadistic cannibals just a generation ago, it doesn't matter, if you are a well established democracy now. In Europe we got former Axis powers, their victims and Allies in the same alliance, because it's present and future that matters, not the past.
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1:15 - in a way that map is a bit misleading, I live in one of blue countries directly bordering Russia, however, that's very recent change, before 2014 and even for few following years it was more like 1,5%/
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And it bears nicknames like "Putin Jugend" or "Putler Jugend".
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The Great Patriotic War is not exactly the name for WWII in Russia, it's the name for the part of the WWII when USSR was no longer aligned with Hitler (as they were since August of 1939 until Jun 22nd of 1941).
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1:55 - not superior just more numerous.
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"Siloviki" are no technocrats, those are specifically special services, law enforcement and military. BTW, you butchered that word. XD Bombing maternity hospital DOES make sense, just not in civilised way. Putin and his gang are a mob. Killing civilians sends clear message: "Stop resisting or we will continue killing your people". Except they are not on the winning side, thus such threats do not work, as defeating them to save lives makes more sense than surrendering.
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14:15 - at that point Putin went like "Why chose only one? Let's bring on all of those!" (except point #2, as Russia is to weak to go beyond regional scale, at lest by conventional means)
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Russia's status as a superpower is somewhat dubious. Is it really? In late 2019 one of the think tanks, proposed their periodic prognosis for near future for th State Dpartament. Russia wasn't mentioned there neither as an ally, nor an adversary; yet that does not mean Russia wasn't there, it was swapped under a common term "China's sattelites". Not like China asked for it, Putin himself turned Russia into CCP's vassal state.
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So, good old "quantity has a quality of its own". BTW, why aren't older M198 howitzers, sitting in stockpiles in US, being sent to Ukraine? Yes, they are older, made of steel instead of titanium, thus heavier, yet by all other means besides weight, they are analogas to M777, but cheaper and easier to replace.
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Socialism and social democracy are not the same. Besides, even if the names of leading parties do not include words "social", "socialistic" or "social democratic", it means nothing, as the policy of leading parties is still very much social democratic, even when those parties are right wing (by European, not American standards, like Bernie Sanders is centrist or even a bit to the right by European norms). 13:14 - LoL, my country was described as run by "nationalist, right wing" government, and that's a load of bullshit. Nationalists never got more than 15-20% votes in elections. Sure, there are so called "conservatives", but they are either populists or pro-business, and not the dominating power anyway. Besides what do you mean "left vs right"? This phrase seldom means anything in a country with over 60 political parties and "rainbow governments" (government usually is made by at lest 3 parties, sometimes as many as 5-6). Point is, that map and whole video is misled generalisation made by people not really into subject and unaware of the situation "on the ground".
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