Comments by "rejvaik" (@rejvaik00) on "PolyMatter" channel.

  1. Pretty sure Kazaks don't like the Mongolians very much you know after that conquering business
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  2. Doesn't matter people hold historic grudges
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  3. "Neutrality is often confused with pacifism but being neutral means above all standing alone having no enemies also means having no friends which means you have lots of potential enemies for which you have to prepare Neutrality is also not a lack of aggression, during world war II Switzerland shot down both German and American planes that violated their airspace Neutral countries often have some of the best equipped and well-trained militaries in their neighborhood so as to feel safe within that neighborhood and to deter anyone who would act capriciously in said neighborhood because neutral countries that don't...... get Belgiumed"
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  4.  @fakeninja4447  "if you ever wondered why the US military spending is so high it's because the US has to jump in for allies through themselves don't meet their own commitments" - Kraut, America's problem with foreign entanglements
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  5.  @reneroux2391  I think it is because every time people express a dislike for the "other" people they cite some historical precedent wether it's real or imagined
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  6. "If you ever wondered why US military spending is so high it's because the US has to jump in for allies who themselves don't meet their own commitments"
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  7.  @najayanlama4048  well I'm pretty sure that the Indian news media doesn't really care if it's okay since they keep having border clashes every year with the PLA since 2015 But I'd worry that calling them that underestimates the strength of the Chinese military forces and overestimates the strength of the Indian military forces
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  8. "The little emperors" eh? At least that's what the Indian news media calls them
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  9. It's a phenomenon called transference, when a symbol is used by a new culture and gets a new meaning despite them not being the originators of the symbol
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  10. Agreed, I can't deny the quality of art that went into it Even though it's for clearly propaganda purposes, I say the same thing about Soviet art. They went for very hyper realistic style and I love realism. While yes the paintings of Stalin holding flowers for children are very much a propaganda machine and a cult of personality, they are high quality at least in artistic execution And it's why I do appreciate more the artistry of a nameless Soviet painter forced to make propaganda paintings than I do for Pablo Picasso
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  11.  @biglightball  good thing poland is more receptive to hosting a permanent US military base than most of Europe 🇺🇸🤝🇵🇱
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  12.  @someboi4903  yep, that's an ancient symbol of the Jains and the Jain faith and it's original message was one of positive
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  13. you are not adding insult to injury by expressing your condolences and empathizing with someone who is going through hard times never ever think that by emphasizing with someone who is suffering through hard times that you are insulting them
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  14. Now THAT'S ironic the 2008 song "Beijing welcomes you" Acrubbed from the entire Chinese internet lol😂
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  15.  @magicalchicken6249  how about YOU provide the burden of proof, with a link Because that's how you present evidence to the contrary in an argument
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  16. The struggle against Sinocization in Tibet goes back centuries. Basically Tibet is the Poland of Asia, disappearing from the map in 1720, reappearing in 1912 and again disappearing in 1951 In 1720 the Imperial Qing government launched an expedition into Tibet under the pretext of defending it from a common enemy. Tibet was soon annexed afterwards. But Tibet didn't accept Qing rule resulting in a revolt in Lahsa in 1750 which the Qing brutally put down. Tibet struggled with Qing rule off and on until the fall of the Qing. Tibet was able to recover it's national sovereignty with the assistance of the world's strongest military at the time, the British Empire. Who utilized it's geo strategic position as a buffer state. Despite the security guarntee from the British Empire Tibet never became a colony. Likewise it also never achieved de jure status of international recognition instead being able to achieve the de facto status. This would severely limit the Tibetan struggle in the future. After WW2 the UK couldn't continue with its security commitment to Tibet and recalled its troops. Tibet was left without any international recognition but the Chinese were still occupied with their civil war however the Tibetan government knew it was only a matter of time as both the Communists and the KMT claimed Tibet as part of China. Tibet attempted to reach out to both the United Nations and the Chinese government to gain it's legal status as a sovereign territory but the UN was focused on the European rebuilding effort and the establishment of Israel it couldn't focus on the Tibetan cause who in 1946 wasn't a UN member. Tibet then approached the government of China in 1946 but the Chinese civil war had outlasted WW2 was still ongoing so no response was received to grant Tibet it's full legal status. With the victory over the KMT in 1949 Mao and the communist forces moved west to "reclaim" Tibet and 1951 Tibet was returned to its second period of Chinese rule. Tibet has since tried to wither the erosion of Tibetan customs and traditions as best it can.
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  17. They are there but they aren't nearly at the levels of stress the US government has to face when compared to China As the largest city in the US has only 9 million people, whereas China has multiple cities of over 20 million
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  18. Lol the Chinese government already did hahahaha 😂
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  19. The struggle against Sinocization in Tibet goes back centuries. Basically Tibet is the Poland of Asia, disappearing from the map in 1720, reappearing in 1912 and again disappearing in 1951 In 1720 the Imperial Qing government launched an expedition into Tibet under the pretext of defending it from a common enemy. Tibet was soon annexed afterwards. But Tibet didn't accept Qing rule resulting in a revolt in Lahsa in 1750 which the Qing brutally put down. Tibet struggled with Qing rule off and on until the fall of the Qing. Tibet was able to recover it's national sovereignty with the assistance of the world's strongest military at the time, the British Empire. Who utilized it's geo strategic position as a buffer state. Despite the security guarntee from the British Empire Tibet never became a colony. Likewise it also never achieved de jure status of international recognition instead being able to achieve the de facto status. This would severely limit the Tibetan struggle in the future. After WW2 the UK couldn't continue with its security commitment to Tibet and recalled its troops. Tibet was left without any international recognition but the Chinese were still occupied with their civil war however the Tibetan government knew it was only a matter of time as both the Communists and the KMT claimed Tibet as part of China. Tibet attempted to reach out to both the United Nations and the Chinese government to gain it's legal status as a sovereign territory but the UN was focused on the European rebuilding effort and the establishment of Israel it couldn't focus on the Tibetan cause who in 1946 wasn't a UN member. Tibet then approached the government of China in 1946 but the Chinese civil war had outlasted WW2 was still ongoing so no response was received to grant Tibet it's full legal status. With the victory over the KMT in 1949 Mao and the communist forces moved west to "reclaim" Tibet and 1951 Tibet was returned to its second period of Chinese rule. Tibet has since tried to wither the erosion of Tibetan customs and traditions as best it can.
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  20. "Even an evil man can fight for a just cause." Robert Mugabe is the epitome of this fact. RIP Rhodesia, and good luck to you Zimbabwe and your citizens. Mugabe is gone and I hope it brings about a better change and you can return to being the breadbasket of Africa
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  21. Sun Tzu said that! And I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do pal because he invented it
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  22.  @blakejohnson3864  if the allied nations met their own commitments there would be no need for the US to invest so heavily in their own military Industrial complex But the allied nations would rather NOT spend their money on defense they'd rather spend it on social welfare programs and outsource the job national defense to the Americans
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  23. Gotta admit that statue being surrounding by garbage dumps made me laugh
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  24.  @TomorrowWeLive  you are correct the United States is an example of a Nation with food security because the United States is now one of the only Nations that was successful in driving off its endemic parasite towards agricultural output the Rocky mountain locust to Extinction And as a result of that the agricultural boom that the United States experienced in the beginning of the 1800s to the late 1800s was mind blowing The United States and by extension North America is now one of the only Nations and continent that does not suffer any locust populations within its borders
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  25.    Somalia and Somaliland
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  26.  @najayanlama4048  hence my second half of the comment "I worry that calling them that will just underestimate the Chinese military forces and overestimate the Indian military forces"
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  27. Canada is still part of NATO forces and NORAD defense Basically Canada will never not be united in national interests with the US since they both share the same continent
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  28.  @momoware the mere fact that the CCP literally attempted to cut off Taiwan by changing the writing system shows how much language as a whole is in play over this issue
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  29. Russia: "Capitalism is bad!" Secretly practices capitalism China: "Capitalism is bad!" Secretly practices capitalism Vietnam: "Capitalism is bad!" Secretly practices capitalism North Korea: "Capitalism is bad!" Secretly practices capitalism I'm noticing a pattern here
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  30.  @guppy719  no the US doesn't need a country spanning high-speed rail network because unlike China the US doesn't have over a dozen cities in a straight-ish line each with over 8 million people China's population density is massive by comparison some cities like Shanghai and Beijing have a whopping 20+ million population!! US Pop density by comparison is low on a nation wide scale we have 1 single city with 8.8 million, New York City which is the largest concentration of population in the entire US Second is Los Angeles, with a population of 3.8 million which a difference of 5 million is a significant reduction! After that comes Chicago with 2.7 million Then houston with 2.3mil, Phoenix with 1.6 mil, Philadelphia with 1.6mil as well Look at that, top 6 largest cities in the US and they scattered all over the country! How in the heck you think you can create a rail line linking California, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York and expect passengers to ride on it? And the business operating it to turn a profit as well? It can't be done Speaking of price China had to pay a hefty price for such a system 900 billion in debt to get this project through no local, state level or federal level government wants to fork over anything even close to that for something unnecessary Any improvements to public transportation are going to have to start with proper city planning and city expansion, and possibly founding brand new cities closer to existing ones
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  31. "Neutrality is often confused with pacifism but being neutral means above all standing alone having no enemies also means having no friends which means you have lots of potential enemies for which you have to prepare Neutrality is also not a lack of aggression, during world war II Switzerland shot down both German and American planes that violated their airspace Neutral countries often have some of the best equipped and well-trained militaries in their neighborhood so as to feel safe within that neighborhood and to deter anyone who would act capriciously in said neighborhood because neutral countries that don't...... get Belgiumed"
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  32.  @magicalchicken6249  ok now I know you have nothing since I don't even HAVE a channel discussion page on my channel😅 wumao identified!!!!!
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  33. Rip Rhodesia
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  34.  @lucasgrey9794  poland is already in alliance with the baltic states as all 3 baltic states are NATO members as well as Poland
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  35.  @ahyarhartanto1802  again I'm in agreement in my comment in much prefer realism and romanticism over whatever the hell Pablo Picasso does and modern "art"
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  36. https://youtu.be/HowXEBisrkI
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  37. Remember when China denied the satellite imagery of the 3 gorges dam being warped and dislocated? Peppridge Farms remembers...
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  38. The struggle against Sinocization in Tibet goes back centuries. Basically Tibet is the Poland of Asia, disappearing from the map in 1720, reappearing in 1912 and again disappearing in 1951 In 1720 the Imperial Qing government launched an expedition into Tibet under the pretext of defending it from a common enemy. Tibet was soon annexed afterwards. But Tibet didn't accept Qing rule resulting in a revolt in Lahsa in 1750 which the Qing brutally put down. Tibet struggled with Qing rule off and on until the fall of the Qing. Tibet was able to recover it's national sovereignty with the assistance of the world's strongest military at the time, the British Empire. Who utilized it's geo strategic position as a buffer state. Despite the security guarntee from the British Empire Tibet never became a colony. Likewise it also never achieved de jure status of international recognition instead being able to achieve the de facto status. This would severely limit the Tibetan struggle in the future. After WW2 the UK couldn't continue with its security commitment to Tibet and recalled its troops. Tibet was left without any international recognition but the Chinese were still occupied with their civil war however the Tibetan government knew it was only a matter of time as both the Communists and the KMT claimed Tibet as part of China. Tibet attempted to reach out to both the United Nations and the Chinese government to gain it's legal status as a sovereign territory but the UN was focused on the European rebuilding effort and the establishment of Israel it couldn't focus on the Tibetan cause who in 1946 wasn't a UN member. Tibet then approached the government of China in 1946 but the Chinese civil war had outlasted WW2 was still ongoing so no response was received to grant Tibet it's full legal status. With the victory over the KMT in 1949 Mao and the communist forces moved west to "reclaim" Tibet and 1951 Tibet was returned to its second period of Chinese rule. Tibet has since tried to wither the erosion of Tibetan customs and traditions as best it can.
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  39. Freedom of religion guaranteed in the West Persecution of religion guaranteed in the East
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  40. Why do you think that the CCP tries so hard to just erase Taiwan's name? In addition to that the CCP also literally created a new alphabet of Chinese style characters they use in the mainland called simplified Chinese so that mainlanders won't be able to even read the traditional Chinese characters that Taiwan uses Yeah language plays a huge part
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  41.  @christianwhittall5889  again it's just the phenomenon of transference in action
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  42. Giving Hong Kong and Macau back were the worst decisions in the history of those cities
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  43. Oh crap I didn't see parts 1-3 so guess now I gotta watch those too 😉 Oh woe is me 😂
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  44. "Enjoy your affordable Swedish crap" wheel snaps off
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  45. Is that a real fact? Im genuinely curious
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  46.  @magicalchicken6249  you can provide links buddy here's an example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestrel
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  47. Cash will never go away just like barter will never fully go away
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  48.  @unassumingaccount395  I dunno every time someone wants to criticize the US government and its failures they jump to the topic of racism very quickly 🤔 Like you I personally I think that's such a low hanging fruit and not a good indication of government quality. Because again the US has made significant progress in guaranteeing the rights of all it's citizens and admitting past mistakes while other nations like China claim to never had them in the first place To which I say which the genocide towards the Uyghurs in Xinjiang is evidence to the contrary. And China further demands you never criticize China unless you are perfect, which is of course impossible, because no single nation is perfect. My main concern with the Chinese mainland government is it's a single party state, dissenting opinions cannot be expressed in anyway shape or form, unlike in the US If you absolutely loathe the US government you can talk about that, hell you can write a blog post on it over 5000 words long and share it to all your friends You can't do that in China, if you did you'd be arrested and your family will suffer. it's what irks me the most, because I firmly believe "that while I may not agree with what you say I'll defend to the death your right to say it"
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  49. I support the monarchy if Thailand but even I think that lese majeste is a bit much
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  50. And the last of the Llamas will be over once tenzin gyatso dies
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  51. You could argue the same thing with Mexico and PRI who ruled uninterrupted for 80 years
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  52.  @TheLazyEconomist  "equality" isn't the best word I'd put there, homogeneous would fit better
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  53.  @TheLazyEconomist  sure sort of, the problem is that Japan being a homogeneous country means it's borders and immigration enforcement make the US-Mexico border situation look like a pathetic windbag
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  54.  @johnsmith-ir1ne  I don't fully agree sorry 🤷 but to each their own analysis I suppose
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  55. The ducks a Borat?
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  56. For the Uighur definitely, however for the Hui not so much
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  57.  @appleslover  no thats just the Uighurs the Hui are left alone
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  58. THIS☝
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  59. Because they want them to do the work, lots of those monarchies, Kuwait, Brunei, UAE, and Qatar view that kind of work as beneath them So they simply pay someone else to do it, the catch is that they don't allow those workers in They stay there just to do the work and then are expected to leave the country and not assimilate
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  60. This video made me not want to take any cruise ship vacations ever again
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  61. The state of California does not need a rail line 🤦 it's a waste of money and resources and I gotta admit it's rather funny that california is fastly becoming broke despite claiming that once weed was legalized in the state all this new revenue would come pouring in 😂
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  62. Nebula may not have ads or sponsors but it's got a pay wall so it might as well have
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  63. But Chinese culture and the CCP HATES foreigners and immigrants They view them as an assault upon everything traditionally called Chinese, it's why you will never find an Ethiopian man, as a police officer in mainland China They don't want anyone who doesn't look Chinese in any position of power
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  64.  @waluigi3807  very true, but contrast this to Taiwan where they do not care about your race or skin tone You can become a public servant or attain any leadership position by merit It's not exclusive to only those who are of Chinese heritage
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  65.  @waluigi3807  buddy those minorities are claimed to be "Chinese" They are the part of the 56 recognized minority groups, and they STILL get persecution at the hands of the mainland Chinese government The Tibetans, Manchu, Hui, Uyghur, Bei have all faced discrimination and judgement from the Han majority and many still do, particularly the Uyghurs I'm talking about actual non Chinese, AND non Asian blood immigrating and trying to join society. Because again I tell you that in Taiwan, if you can speak the language and show competence you can gain access to whatever standing and whatever position and title you want In mainland China, not at all, if you don't have Chinese blood and actually look Chinese you will be flatly refused and told to your face, "You are not my race, so I deny you this" It's disgusting
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  66.  @waluigi3807  In what way you think they get preferential treatment? Because they sure didn't The Manchus themselves were discriminated against, as they were the last imperial dynasty before the Han took over through the communist leadership of the CCP in 1949. As such the Han treated them as a traitorous culture From 1949 - to 1981 Their own language outlawed, and cultural practices suppressed. Manchurian women were forced into marriages to Han Chinese men, all government and authority positions even in the provence of Manchuria were exclusively staffed by Han Chinese They were denied any distinction of identity different from the CCP narrative of "One single Chinese people" from Mao until Deng Xiaoping, decided okay they no longer a threat now and have been fully sinocized Only then did schools in Manchuria begin to teach Manchurian, language and script, Manchurian history and style of dress was allowed, it took 40 years of suppression before they could be able to make any changes and that's just ONE of China's ethnic minority groups
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  67.  @waluigi3807  official language? Buddy did you not know what the CCP has done? To facilitate the spread of Mandarin, they are removing and simplifying Chinese characters in the script, they do this as a form of social control, if you force the removal of the old script that ensures the population can't read it, driving a further wedge between those in the mainland and those abroad They attempting to do the same thing in The Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, forcibly eliminating traditional Mongolian in place of the CCP approved Mongolian language and writing system
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  68.  @j.p.vanbolhuis8678  I won't disagree it took all the way until 1962 for example for NATO members to agree to just a standard caliber for the pistol the 9mm And even then there's been friction for who should run what for logistics, such as the Germans veto the adoption of the P90 for standard use in NATO in 2002 because they didn't like Belgium taking center stage in the SMG market and trying to supplant their MP5 why? Because $$$$ But yes more often the friction is felt when the US has been the shield for NATO members who run authoritarian governments such as Turkey, Greece (during the military Junta), and when these same NATO members don't meet the metric of 2% GDP for defense spending I'd recommend you watch the video America's problem with Foreign Entanglements by Kraut, it does a great summation and exploration of these issues and it's where the quote I posted is from
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  69.  @uncleadi  The Western alliance, with it's american leadership, wasn't all that Western. It contained defensive pacts with more than 60 countries...from S. Korea, to Pakistan, to Saudi Arabia, Israel and Argentina with NATO at it's core. This was a bundle of nations that weren't ideologically aligned, and some of them even hated: (Pakistan/Israel) or went to war with each other: ( Turkey/Greece, Argentina/UK) despite being supposedly on the same side but they all were united in one commonality, they all opposed Soviet Communism Which resulted in weird entangled networks of military assistance; Where the Americans sent Israeli weapons, to Pakistani officials, to arm Saudi fanatics, in a war against the Soviets in Afghanistan However when Soviet Union collapsed the alliance lost the one thing which kept it together, the enemy This resulted in an American sphere of influence with no unified purpose The American presence, once seen as a protector, increasingly began to be seen as an American occupation abroad. And as an entanglement in foreign conflicts at home These entanglements compounded by: 1) conflicts within that sphere of influence 2) the lack of commonality by ideology or purpose 3) And the eventual attack against the main guarantor of that alliance from within supposed allies Became increasingly unpopular EXAMPLE: The US has had close military ties with Pakistan since the 1950s, as Pakistan's rival India allied with the Soviets but as the cold war ground itself to an end that relationship became strenuous. Pakistan aided terror groups, such as the Taliban, even as they were fighting the Americans Secretly built a nuclear weapons program with the help of one of America's biggest rivals (China) Harboured and provided safety to enemies of the United States (Bin Laden) And used military assistance to train terror groups to undermine a neighboring democratic society All of it, while it remained a dictatorial, Islamist, Theocracy Now the network of allied nations the US had built to coordinate against a common enemy, had unfortunately turned into a network of entanglements of conflicting interests, ideologies, and ambitions
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  70. This is the country that is soon to be a superpower huh?
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  71. Yes it was, and polymatter failed to mention that it was a ban on super sized soda cups and bottles from being sold not soda entirely The public was pissed and forced the decision to be reversed
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  72. I have the same idea regarding the 3 gorges dam, which was hailed as a masterpiece of engineering and featured in so much pro CCP propaganda yet now barely 20 years later the dam has already started warping due to shoddy construction 😂 Even when satellite images showed this the CCP denied it over and over again to try and save face
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  73.  @dirremoire  nope it's not propaganda because the CCP eventually conceded the point and even admitted it themselves 😂 On top of that during construction they even ignored western expert advice on quality control because they said those quality control experts were "being racist" So no you can't blame western people for China's propaganda piece but I don't expect anything less from a wumao Chinese shill
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  74.  @dirremoire  typical wumao can't let it go🤣 Enjoy your shills
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  75. I think you dropped the ball on this one polymatter watch China uncensored next time and you can get a better understanding other than that not too bad of a video
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  76. Well if they can keep the stability and peace within their borders yes Unfortunately civil wars and inter ethnic tribal conflicts still breakout into violence far to often Even in Ethiopia, Which currently is fighting a revolt amongst the ethnic Tigray in the northern provences
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  77.  @sjules6596  they are on the decline yes that is true but they are still long lasting especially in the minds of the population of the nations who have suffered from the violence regardless of the source. Which is why I said more so about inter-ethnic revolts than full civil wars. It will be a very long time before the tribes of an African nation stop seeing their tribal affiliation first and more important to as their primary identity and start to accept the National identity I only brought up Ethiopia, because it's the most recognisable in leading African nations, but it's still suffers from tribal clans that very rarely assimilate and join. It also has suffered from losing a piece of it and becoming a new nation, Eritrea, because of the same ethnic tribal refusal to accept central government authority of Addis Ababa over another tribal clan Combine that with the religious divide in Ethiopia today between the Ethiopian Christians and Muslims as well and it's a quagmire among the people With the Ethiopian government being dominated by the Oromo, the other tribes such as the Amharic and the Tigray grow in resentment, And it's THAT resentment the governments of Africa need to solve or else more and more African nations will be ripped into pieces
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  78. Well I'm sorry buddy but Canada has issues you just don't want to look for them because we all like stereotypes when they are the positive stereotypes, one such issue was documented by the YT Channel Minute Earth in 2015 they are are destroying an ecosystem used by the indigenous communities in the Canadian province of Nunavut to search for oil and have been doing so continuously non stop since the project started They have a sonic canon that goes off every 30 seconds to map the sea floor, this is very disruptive to the fishing and seal population upon which the indigenous population is greatly dependent on
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  79. Anyone wanting to know the basics of politics and policy needs to watch this video
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  80. This needs to be top on YT trending list,
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  81. Umlauts aren't funny! They are badass! The English language has the only use of umlauts above the Y letter
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  82. https://youtu.be/HowXEBisrkI
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  83. Guarantee you that if black Americans tried to live in Singapore where foreigners really don't have any say in democracy they'd come running to America tail between their legs
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  84. Pakistan > India Pound it brother 👊
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  85. Yeah it's great when cities aren't spread out like they are in the US
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  86. https://youtu.be/HowXEBisrkI
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  87. Ok I can respect that small piece about him
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  88. Yeah people are wising up to the shit that is Uber and refusing to use it
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  89.  @royalteluis623  indeed
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  90. When diversity isn't your strength
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  91. Ive said it before Ill say it again North Korea only exists because The Chinese Communist Party wants it to exist. You want North Korea to fall? Convince The CCP to allow it. A hurculean task that is very unlikely.
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  92. It's a phenomenon called transference when a symbol gains a new meaning in a new culture and new group despite the symbol not originating from the same group
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  93. So what has changed?
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  94. The KJU speculation was just a textbook example of circular news sourcing at work That's right Polymatter I remember your older video 👍
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  95. On that we are agreed
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  96. The toxic waste was brought there because of a Tsunami you ignorant idiot!!!! Not a deliberate attempt
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  97. Yeah you just barely scratching the surface of the Iron Triangle there buddy
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  98.  @magicalchicken6249  no, you have evidence to the contrary therefore you have post it or figure out how to disseminate and distribute it That's how proper arguments are done, it's not my job or responsibility to figure out how to use your broken link
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  99.  @magicalchicken6249  no I don't have one buddy it's disabled, just like my community tab😅
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  100.  @magicalchicken6249  lol you gonna have to do better than that😅 comments aren't allowed on my videos, how about instead you make an Imgur post and then link that here
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  101. Unfortunately it is China as seen by international community. China was deviously cunning to have never given "de jure" recognition status. The struggle against Sinocization in Tibet goes back centuries. Basically Tibet is the Poland of Asia, disappearing from the map in 1720, reappearing in 1912 and again disappearing in 1951 In 1720 the Imperial Qing government launched an expedition into Tibet under the pretext of defending it from a common enemy. Tibet was soon annexed afterwards. But Tibet didn't accept Qing rule resulting in a revolt in Lahsa in 1750 which the Qing brutally put down. Tibet struggled with Qing rule off and on until the fall of the Qing. Tibet was able to recover it's national sovereignty with the assistance of the world's strongest military at the time, the British Empire. Who utilized it's geo strategic position as a buffer state. Despite the security guarntee from the British Empire Tibet never became a colony. Likewise it also never achieved de jure status of international recognition instead being able to achieve the de facto status. This would severely limit the Tibetan struggle in the future. After WW2 the UK couldn't continue with its security commitment to Tibet and recalled its troops. Tibet was left without any international recognition but the Chinese were still occupied with their civil war however the Tibetan government knew it was only a matter of time as both the Communists and the KMT claimed Tibet as part of China. Tibet attempted to reach out to both the United Nations and the Chinese government to gain it's legal status as a sovereign territory but the UN was focused on the European rebuilding effort and the establishment of Israel it couldn't focus on the Tibetan cause who in 1946 wasn't a UN member. Tibet then approached the government of China in 1946 but the Chinese civil war had outlasted WW2 was still ongoing so no response was received to grant Tibet it's full legal status. With the victory over the KMT in 1949 Mao and the communist forces moved west to "reclaim" Tibet and 1951 Tibet was returned to its second period of Chinese rule. Tibet has since tried to wither the erosion of Tibetan customs and traditions as best it can.
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  102.  @suh6282  well I wish you could bring that mentality towards the American continent.
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  103. When your entire nation's population is smaller than the population of New York city you can be more efficient much easier
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  104.  @Whalllllllllllly  no buddy, a smaller population size that is also densely packed means it is much easier to gather data to craft good policy So yes, geography and population size is very fundamental to government policy decisions
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  105. I wonder how many people will fall for this
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  106. You basically summed up drug trafficking as well in this video.
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  107. Rip Rhodesia
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  108. This is true but the CCP is very subtle instead vthey have the ability to reflect themselves on the Chinese students who study abroad. They do this by leaching off of the success of these students. By claiming that any success the students achieve is a success for the CCP and only the CCP. This is what adds to the perception of mistrust for these foreign students. Its something that they cannot escape because the CCP has placed propagandists everywhere in the world. And any CCP official can just point out a single Chinese student and use that student to help promote the public image of the CCP
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  109. When education becomes a fucking business....
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  110.  @schijtnaam  https://youtu.be/uhXFgKEkwbU
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  111. Gotta read the dictators handbook first CGP Grey recomended it now this guy
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  112. The struggle against Sinocization in Tibet goes back centuries. Basically Tibet is the Poland of Asia, disappearing from the map in 1720, reappearing in 1912 and again disappearing in 1951 In 1720 the Imperial Qing government launched an expedition into Tibet under the pretext of defending it from a common enemy. Tibet was soon annexed afterwards. But Tibet didn't accept Qing rule resulting in a revolt in Lahsa in 1750 which the Qing brutally put down. Tibet struggled with Qing rule off and on until the fall of the Qing. Tibet was able to recover it's national sovereignty with the assistance of the world's strongest military at the time, the British Empire. Who utilized it's geo strategic position as a buffer state. Despite the security guarntee from the British Empire Tibet never became a colony. Likewise it also never achieved de jure status of international recognition instead being able to achieve the de facto status. This would severely limit the Tibetan struggle in the future. After WW2 the UK couldn't continue with its security commitment to Tibet and recalled its troops. Tibet was left without any international recognition but the Chinese were still occupied with their civil war however the Tibetan government knew it was only a matter of time as both the Communists and the KMT claimed Tibet as part of China. Tibet attempted to reach out to both the United Nations and the Chinese government to gain it's legal status as a sovereign territory but the UN was focused on the European rebuilding effort and the establishment of Israel it couldn't focus on the Tibetan cause who in 1946 wasn't a UN member. Tibet then approached the government of China in 1946 but the Chinese civil war had outlasted WW2 was still ongoing so no response was received to grant Tibet it's full legal status. With the victory over the KMT in 1949 Mao and the communist forces moved west to "reclaim" Tibet and 1951 Tibet was returned to its second period of Chinese rule. Tibet has since tried to wither the erosion of Tibetan customs and traditions as best it can.
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  113.  @funky_cartel097  If I had to say I enjoy Picasso's early works when he was in school of fine arts in A Coruña and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando which was the equivalent of MIT for Art in Spain. I mean there is no doubt he was a prodigy, He completed his entrance exam to the first school in 1 week at age 13🤯 and I will admit the only reason he stopped doing those style of paintings was he had already mastered those techniques at such an early age and frankly he was bored with them it wasn't a challenge for him that's why he started to start to circumnavigate them or even break them entirely it's just he started getting into more on the experimental side of art , which is fine you can do that but it's just not going to please everyone everyone's aesthetics are different And I also will admit when Picasso got into his Rose period and we started to see a return of his use of the traditional styles and elements I do enjoy those as well But on the whole it's not like me to appreciate his stranger looking paintings
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  114.  @funky_cartel097  Thanks, well I had to make sure I knew a little bit about Picasso when I made my original comment because I did I had to study him And again he's a quality artist just 99% of the time he's just not what I'm looking for and not what I enjoy in art Hope I didn't sound too much like a jerk
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  115.  @unassumingaccount395  yes but the US acknowledges it exists and provides laws to combat it the Chinese mainland government does not have any laws in place to guarantee rights and prevent discrimination for anyone who is not Chinese
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  116.  @unassumingaccount395  i literally just said that 🤣 re read my earlier comment
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