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

  1. Oh ffs, the US doesn't need Oil from other countries. It has 36 Billion barrels in proven reserves. It also the capacity to increase its domestic production tenfold. For example the US currently has an oil field in Alaska (Prudhoe Oil field) that is bigger than entire British Isles. The US also has untapped offshore resources in California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Maine, Florida and Guam. The reason why it doesn't exploit these is because the residents of these states/ territories don't want the harmful effects of the environmental impact. So to maintain this strong American concern for America's environment, the US looks to trade to secure it's oil needs and it has an abundance of options of oil nations to trade with. Mexico, Norway, Canada, Brunei, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait just to name a few. I'm telling you this to end that bullshit and actually put some truth to your "memes"
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  2.  @jamesbryant8133  we should just take the ocean and push it somewhere else
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  3. The largest empire to have ever existed the British Empire. Runner Up was Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire.
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  4.  @DB-nu6yb  I highly agree. You can't try to fake a claim of offense just to hide history simply because it doesn't match your views. It's unethical and it teaches bad intellectual habits.
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  5.  @luischirinogalvez6006  much earlier than that my friend, the seat of the Oman sultanate was moved to Zanzibar in the 1600s
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  6.  @balpreetsingh6834  oh I know I have no idea why America chose to Ally itself with Pakistan but yes that was a reason for India however, I must point out that the change in alignment by India didn't happen until many decades later in the 1970s And the US declared Pakistan to be an ally in 1957 so while true, it's not the main reason why India shifted it's alignment East
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  7.  @Xaitis  it's because India allied itself with the Soviets back during the Cold War days and that legacy of Russian and Indian cooperation still persists
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  8. EU: "Greece cannot be destroyed Turkey, son of Ottoman, by any show of force we here possess. It must be taken deep into the IMF and cast back into the fiery debts from which it came. One of you must do this"
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  9. Low ground*
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  10.  @leodarksam6230  Netherlands has been historically called the low country it's a pun
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  11. Too bad the black American settlers that were returned to Liberia were seen as foreigners. And the native Liberians treated them with such hostility it led to civil wars
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  12. Back when the Ottomans were in control of the area they still had problems. Just research the 3 Pasha's and how much that region suffered under management of the ottoman empire.
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  13. I would like to agree and see the lives of Iranians improve for the better But to the iranian regime has invested heavily in its military, police and domestic surveillance systems; much like the Chinese government So unless a significant number of the military/police refuse to comply with the orders from the central government it is unlikely these protests will lead to revolution
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  14. Zimbabwe: who are you? Sudan: I'm you but better
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  15. I got to admit that closing statement Caspian was very confusing
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  16. "I'm proud to be lebanese until I go back to Lebanon where suddenly I'm very Canadian"
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  17.  Brother Opaque  I believe his mother was of the Gola tribe and his father was an americo-liberian. there's better biographical videos and books that can tell you about this the infamous POS than I can
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  18. So... Iran is just going to ignore the Chinese persecution of Uyghur Muslims? Move over Pakistan there's a new sellout in the Muslim world 🤦
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  19.  @ramazankapar5988  well seeing as Turkey is a NATO member and participates in exercises with US forces in Europe and western Asia that's a very strange want to have there.
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  20. Through passion I gain strength...
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  21. Wrong, ants have been fighting wars, and taking slaves longer than humans
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  22.  @emre05x  you're obviously not listening so I'm just going to stop wasting words with you
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  23. And no one talks about the Arab genocide in Tanzania in 1964
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  24.  @shafthespaceegg  Not any more, there's now a concept of universal jurisdiction that's become commonplace within the international community Where grave acts of massive death can be punished via laws of whatever nation decides to move forward with the prosecution You can see this practiced with Igor Girkin who was convicted by the Dutch government for his actions concerning the downing of flight MH-17 despite the fact that technically Igor's actions took place on Ukrainian soil and was subject to Ukraine's laws
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  25. Russia still fought a civil war in Chechnya to prevent the chechens from gaining independence and leaving the Russian Federation despite Russia having nuclear missiles
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  26. That's still not a good thing you shouldn't send all of your capacity to another country Don't get me wrong I am glad Denmark is helping out the ukrainians but at the same time you would be foolish to send all of what you have and are left with nothing
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  27. Badum tiss
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  28.  @FictionHubZA  that's an absolute monarchy that's down in Swaziland not a constitutional monarchy like I was suggesting
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  29. They've always been that way, the only thing to stop a showcase of force is a fearful deterrent of a stronger force to be used in retaliation
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  30. Pretty sure that if anyone would use covert operations to disrupt this it would be China not the US or the CIA The US isn't entirely dependent on trade through SE Asia Pacific region, unlike China, it only just patrols the area With freedom of navigation exercises to keep the route open for others But I don't think the SE Asia nations of the Malay archipelago will ever unite, even if they were culturally homogeneous. It's the same concept as Nasser's idea of "Pan Arabia" Where the entire Arab Speaking world would unite into a single country and you can see how badly that failed
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  31. Same here. He never ceases to amaze
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  32. Very excellent answers to these questions. You are very well read and have very well researched these topics. I look forward to seeing your next video.
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  33.  @SireJaxs  yeah it was a real shame President Garfield was like the American equivalent of Marcus Aurelius
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  34. I had a feeling that Russia was going to try to push for South and try to reinforce transnistria and the Moldova issue
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  35. Europeans have been in Africa for millennia, though it was mostly in the north Africa in lands that border the Mediterranean
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  36. Since the US changed its recognition to the city of Jerusalem as the capital I believe a few other countries have followed suit and relocated their respective embassies from Tel Aviv
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  37. Not really, you were part of the non-aligned movement for a long number of years you didn't change to support the USSR until the 1970s under Indira Gandhi who over the course of her administration became increasingly authoritarian
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  38. The current Russian flag is from the days of just before the time of Catherine the Great in 1696 While current the Belarusian flag is actually very recent having been designed in 1991. Belarus used to have flag similar to the current Russian federation flag with horizontal white stripes on both the top and bottom with a red stripe in the middle that white-red-white flag was adopted by the Belarusian government in 1918
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  39. Well they're not in the best position to make one they have angered every single one of their direct neighbors on their border so they can't form an alliances with any of the bordering Nations And as he said later on in the video there's other nations they can try to, such as Iran, but if they do they'll immediately lose some of the friends they've already made through all the economic benefits Also Nations around the world recognize that China doesn't a strong and combat ready military force that can provide that necessary security The Chinese have never practiced at expeditionary forces and logistics
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  40. the only exception to Nations on their borders they have not angered is North Korea and China already does have an alliance with North Korea where on paper they say they will come to defense of the North Koreans should the North Koreans ever be attacked
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  41.  @yaz2928  I couldn't have said it better myself "In the world of geopolitics there are no permanent set of morals and no permanent allies, only permanent national interests" If Australia wants to improve its standing with East Timor it will have to align itself with their interests not against them
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  42. I caution everyone singing the praises of Singapore and nations around the world wanting to emulate it, a lot of freedoms had to be given up by the citizens of Singapore to ensure that it continues to exist as a nation, and it's very much an authoritarian government
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  43.  @matthewkottler5553  look you and I both know that it's stupid, but the CCP does not care in regards towards human life that's what I'm trying to convey to you if the CCP is desperate enough they will March their soldiers as if they were a slave army two certain death if that meant they could take Taiwan so it is very much relevant because I see the CCP getting more and more desperate
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  44. My scenario; The result of the referendum will be favorable to Catalonia and unfavorable to Madrid. Madrid will then dispute the result, declare it illegal, imprison activists and participaters. Catalonia will no doubt respond with an increased desire of seccession and national pride. Violence will now be seen as a means to uphold Catalonia's process to succession after the legal route to statehood fails. Pro-Catalonia supporters will find a target that carries symbolic meaning and its destruction will help eradicate said symbol of oppression. Madrid will no doubt respond with extremely forceful measures if said target was successfully destroyed. With violence erupting international attention will focus briefly on the area. Madrid and the government of Spain will use this attention to try and appeal to the UN security council and the EU to not recognize Catalonia as a nation. Meanwhile violence is increasing. Remeniscent of the Spanish civil war, with some commenters no doubt making the same comparison. Catalonia will be persuing its own method towards international recognition, likely citing claims as an unjustly conquered ethinic group with a distinct culture and language seperate from the rest of the Spanish people. Possibly appealing to that of a colonial status, with its people attempting to remove the powers of its colonial masters. The international community likely not wanting any more violence erupting in europe, from anyother competing Nationalist/Seccessionist ideals and a swift end to the conflict, will side with Madrid and provide economic assistance over military assistance. The businesses and tourism in the region of Catalonia are decimated after the violence began. And what few residents/ international travelers remain uneasy in the region. Governments around the world issue travel warnings to the region. Commenters begin to question the status of the EU once again, after Britan attempts to leave and spain is tearing at the seams. French troops are sent to the border to deal with refugees fleeing the region. Madrid is successful in supressing the violence and seccession movement. But the idea of independence remains in the mind of Catalonians. Madrid will now govern the region with a more militarized force to minimize chances of repeated violence. Much to the dismay of catalonians who now solidfy their beliefs for independence. And no doubt will reattempt seccession as a justified response to the increased mistreament of spanish forces.
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  45. Uhh I don't know about the title as "peace broker" the Omari Sultanate used to have its seat of power in Zanzibar and regularly participated in the slave trade and subjugation of Africans untill the 1960s
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  46. I couldn't have said it better myself that is 100% correct
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  47.  @NoName-sb9tp  I know it's a joke lol as I said it would be the most strange if Vietnam shifted to being supportive of everything and all Chinese
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  48. I fully agree, I think the common phrase "graveyard of empires" needs be changed to "graveyard of Afghans" 😔
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  49. The US kept warning Europe: hey we are going to focus on Asia you better step up and start participating in defense because we have a much more dangerous adversary But Europe largely (Not Finland, Sweden, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia) put it's fingers in it's ears and didn't want to hear it, they knew that militaries are expensive and they wanted to rather spend that money on social programs and educating their citizens Not to mention that if they stopped funding those people would be angry for loosing those and no politician wanted to risk it, at least until it was "ok" to finally do so and that was the Ukraine conflict
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  50.  @dianeconti7602  he is misinformed but partially correct. Currently (as of September 2019) the US state department has rated the entire nation of Turkey as a level 2 (increased caution) travel advisory. Specific Areas within Turkey are listed as a level 3 (Reconsider Travel) these include: Batman, Bingol, Bitlis, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hakkari, Hatay, Kilis, Mardin, Sanliurfa, Siirt, Sirnak, Tunceli, and Van And Level 4 (Do not travel) exists as well for the Turkish borders of Iraq and Syria. Source: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/turkey-travel-advisory.html
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