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

  1. I just found it interesting that this time it was a female authoritarian leader Those are pretty rare
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  2.  @fluoroantimonictippedcruis1537  the host of YouTube Channel China Uncensored
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  3.  @prequelanimations539  no they really don't care China did nothing but throw wave after wave of men and material to overwhelm the US in Korea and they did the same thing in the Sino-Vietnamese border conflict in the 1970s (the last battle the PLA fought in) The CCP will not care, they are desperate to toss away lives if it means they can stay in power
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  4. If Brazil had stayed a monarchy I'd think it would be far better off today Pedro II was a modern day equivalent of Marcus Aurelius
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  5.  @benjaminlamptey1867  yeah No to the first and No to the second Even today the Turkish government doesn't reach the international minimum standards for combating Human Trafficking and is both a source and transit destination for trafficking victims When the ottoman was empire collapsing, it still was incapable of and banishing the practice of slavery in the entirety of its holdings The Successor state, The republic of Turkey became a homogeneous ethno-state for Turks only. One that forcibly removed most of it's minorities, including any Afro-Turkish descendants of slaves. Now the Afro-Turkish are a minority of minorities, numbering less than 1,200 in the entirety of Turkey Meaning that there is no large community of slave descendants within Turkey to demand any form of compensation from the government Curiously enough though the Turkish government never passed any legislation to explicitly ban slavery until the late 1960s There's only one nation in the Arab world to have explicitly apologized for the Arab slave trade and ironically enough it was Libya, when Gaddafi formally apologized to the entirety of the continent
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  6. Agreed, the number of Secessionist ideas coming from Cebu alone is alarming Philippines can barely hang on to its 9000 islands let alone trying to unite Manila with another nations capital The only way these nations will unite is through force
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  7.  @busyguy8266  much more than you might have guessed. Tell me are you at all familiar with the history of the island of Zanzibar?
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  8.  @gastonestbon5439  sorry I meant to type Saddam's Iraq
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  9.  @allencummings7564  Argentina: "One does not simply borrow from the IMF, its bank loans are guarded by more than just credit bureaus, there is bureaucracy there that does not sleep, and the great eye of the debtors is forever watchful. It is a barren wasteland riddled with politics, bureaucrats, and dust. The very air you breathe is a mind numbing fume. Not with 0% interest rates should you do this, it is folly"
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  10. That's a little confusing😵
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  11. You need a navy to defend your "claims" Portugal and its navy is lackluster
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  12. Hey Oman tell us what happened to Zanzibar in the 60s🤔 🇹🇿
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  13.  @DaveSCameron  Certainly, in the case of Romania for example the government there has known about the expansion of the man-made desert called the Oltenian since 1989 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oltenian_Sahara
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  14. And once Russia and the US militarize the region it will become "international waters" with that rationale enforced by the point of a gun
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  15. Libya the real life battle of the 5 armies
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  16. Well just don't look into the history of Zanzibar and the Oman sultanate.... Or the Zanzibar revolution
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  17. Argentina: "One does not simply borrow from the IMF, its bank loans are guarded by more than just credit bureaus, there is bureaucracy there that does not sleep, and the great eye of the debtors is forever watchful. It is a barren wasteland riddled with politics, bureaucrats, and dust. The very air you breathe is a mind numbing fume. Not with 0% interest rates should you do this, it is folly"
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  18.  @bobbobbinson1841  you strawmaned yourself m8.
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  19. Definitely read "Why nations fail" and "Guns Germs and Steel"
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  20.  @benjaminlamptey1867  sure be in denial all you want but yes both Omani and Ottoman slave trades were very inhumane The clove plantations in stone town alone are more than enough proof of this Also regardless if it was simply a castrated slave to guard the Ottoman Harem or a slave to become a tailor to the Ottoman royal family, the fact that it was still a slave should send alarm bells off in your head that THIS IS WRONG. Don't try to take the position of defending the practice of slavery because "well at least it wasn't as bad as _______" Arabia and it's slave trade went on longer than the West, and often the West had to step in with the point of a gun to force a change in slavery policy after the west abolished it's practices. Such examples bing as with King Kosoko, and Hammoud bin Mohammed Both of these leaders ALLOWED slavery and only stopped when forced to do so The Ethiopians were the ones that suffered the most from the Ottomans, the Kenyans and Somalis suffered from the Omani Sultanate And no the Omani Sultanate has never formally acknowledged the abuses of its 200 year reign over the Africans in Zanzibar, read the text of the 1970 royal decree by Qaboos bin Said Al-Said There virtually zero Africans in Oman fighting for recognition for historical crimes as it's still an absolute monarchy
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  21. Who are you! And what have you done with Shivran?!! Lol
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  22. It would only be difficult if you didn't adopt a tactic as brutal as when the Mongols conquered it The Mongols quickly recognized that only sheer brute force and annihilation tactics would be enough to break their Persian opponents The mongol rule of the "wagon wheel" originated from their conquest of the Persians Where every boy who was larger than the height of a wagon wheel was put down in an effort to prevent generational discontent from blossoming into a rebellion And since you can't do those tactics like that in the modern day Iran is now unconquerable
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  23.  Heather Larson  this ☝️ Claims mean nothing if you have no ability to enforce them
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  24. Iran: Attacks Saudi oil refinery America: kills Iranian general Iran: NOOOOOOOOOO you weren't supposed to fight back reeeeeeee
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  25. At least the infrastructure will be of higher quality than the Chinese led projects in Africa
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  26. Very much agreed, I think the biggest lesson I've learned is: "In the world of geopolitics there are no allies only nations and national interests" And now I no longer care what a politician does when it's perceived by their constituents to be controversial because I understand that all the world is a stage and we are not the only ones on it
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  27.    there is no link to pc and climate change. What I wrote was it is better to be realistic than force a narrative. The top brass of the military is doing just that, they are planning rather than denying
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  28. So confusing, reminds me of: "I don't know half of you as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve"
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  29. Now this is a well versed and thoughtful thread. Well done gentlemen. I enjoyed reading these comments
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  30.  @TheReaper569  no just trying to illustrate to you how commonplace it is and it's not an exception at all, nor is it a rule of any kind this isn't a numbers game buddy where I have to show you more and more examples to break your statement because what I said isn't a competition or a contest and you don't need to see it as such, it's just history But I will give even more examples of conflicts being started by militaries rather than politicians from around the world simply to show a non bias America did it when Commadore Matthew C. Perry disobeyed orders and forcefully opened up the nation of japan by firing his ship's cannon upon the capital city As well as Mustafa Kamal Attaturk refusing to carry out orders from the Ottoman Sultan for the enforcement of the Allied Treaty upon the ottomans following the their defeat in WW1, he instead sparked a conflict that lead to Turkish independence Alexander Khodakovsy left service of the Ukrainian government to help lead the 2014 pro Russian rebels for the ongoing war in Donbas
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  31. You don't want that. Hallie Selassie was an absolute monarch and his story of his rise to power and disposal of the former empress was not a good one.
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  32.  @emre05x  in my comment I explicitly said: they are affiliated but one is designated a terror group one is not and it is only Turkey and Qatar that considers the YPG to be a terror group so no, Turkey is the one "stretching the truth"
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  33.  @emre05x  I didn't say anything about Turkey being in the right or in the wrong when designating YPG a terror group I said facts and I had to say them twice because you still weren't listening An now I'm giving up any and all further conversation because you don't want to listen you want to argue And no one has ever won an argument on the Internet or ever changed a person's mind on the internet Take care buddy 👍
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  34. I highly doubt Oman and Tanzania are "friends"🤣🤣🤣
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  35.  @rolong4444  China: did somebody say African neocolonialism? Here's a money loan from us....don't read the fine print btw 😉
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  36. No kidding! the ancient kings of egypt would be rolling in their graves if they knew that Egypt is now a net importer of food
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  37. Well unless you physically went to Africa to try and find him it wouldn't matter if 10 million people posted a #
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  38. I certainly hope not, as whoever gave the order to target the dam for destruction would become the newest person with the highest deaths in a military conflict ever recorded in the history of mankind And that's a sobering thought 😬
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  39.  @DaveSCameron  if anything he should have talked about the expanding deserts in Poland and Romania which were not natural but a result of bad government policy
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  40. Always remember: "In the world of geopolitics there are no permanent set of morals and no permanent allies, only permanent national interests"
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  41. Oman empire Tanzania: 😠😡😠
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  42. You gotta hand it to the Vietnamese, they fought against France, US, China and Cambodia all within a century and won?!
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  43. I don't know I don't think the having a nuclear weapons is deterrent and guarantee of safety anymore as much as people think Because we keep finding the examples of Nations who are nuclear weapons capable still attacking each other such as India and Pakistan as well as China and India
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  44. You are correct 😞
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  45. No there are actual dam busting munitions that have been utilized specifically for the destruction of dams that can pierce down to 30 meters And given the poor construction quality of the 3 gorges I'm not sure if even that would be needed Luckily we have since put in the rules when conducting warfare that you cannot needlessly target civilian infrastructure it is a war crime if you do so
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  46. Russia is using very dated means of both conducting warfare and securing territory
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  47. "Be thankful India that you haven't found yourself in my grip" - China probably
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  48. I think France is trying to do their best to wrestle the dominant position of the EU away from Germany and they have many benefactors of their geography and their demography that can the potentially assist them in this regard Not to mention their military is vastly superior to that of Germany's I believe they are 7th strongest in the world And even though they are suffering somewhat from the lack of Russian supplied oil and gas France invested heavily in nuclear power plants and even different types of nuclear power plants rather than just the classic nuclear power plants we know of boiling water to turn a turbine they've got different designs that they have put together and some of them even are operating in China so France is trying to also maintain a degree of energy Independence from foreign Nations by the use of their vast nuclear energy plants to their power grid
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  49. I won't disagree that there's not problems with the American style of the defense industry but if you live in a democracy you are footing the bill regardless of every time you pay your taxes And that footing the bill isn't specific to the defense industry it applies to literally everything the government gets involved in
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  50.  @CB0408  yes. Goa was such a problem at the time it almost single-handedly destroyed the United Nations as an international organisation.
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