Comments by "TheSuperappelflap" (@TheSuperappelflap) on "Good Times Bad Times" channel.

  1. it can be a valid reasoning on the very short term. you have to start building a replacement missile before shooting the first one. at this point russia doesnt have enough money to do that. there wont be a third missile.
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  2. Russian economy is so overestimated. Its about equal to Spain. The financial and military aid Ukraine is receiving is comparable to a significant chunk of Russias GDP. And Putin doesnt want full mobilisation or total war, because that will cost him support.
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  3. these sanctions are far more expansive than those implemented previously. and the previous sanctions did affect the russian economy as well. it forced them to rely more and more on oil and gas exports, which were not being sanctioned. which resulted in the situation we have now.
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  4. the main reason is that most women want to focus on career and not have children, i am living in the most expensive country in europe except for monaco and luxemburg and i can afford a house by myself. its not an economic issue, its a social issue
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  5. I dont want to say this video is extremely biased, but the lack of attention paid to the situation in Palestine and what the moderates in Israel think about that does show through. Maybe consider a more neutral perspective.
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  6. Have you seen the godfather part 2 and 3? All you need to know about the Vatican right there.
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  7.  @Iv4Bez  nice historical revisionism. the russian army was underequipped and undertrained to fight against modern militaries such as the prussians and austrians. they were out of the war by 1917 except for formal surrender. they got their asses kicked by the prussians and austrians in galicia and poland. they didnt make any gains against the ottomans either. war support was close to 0. in fact the disastrous performance of the russian army in the war was one of the major reasoms the revolution could succeed, because there werent many soldiers to oppose them, and many of the soldiers that were in duty sided with the revolutionaries because they didnt want to go back to the front and didnt support the tsar. this is all readily available infornation in history books, encyclopedias and wikipedia.
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  8.  @kerlkirill  i dont want to glorify soviet russia, but dont believe all the US propaganda. soviet era from 1917 to 1989 transitioned russia from a rural, feudal economy based on free labour provided by serfs, to an industrial nation that could rival the US in space and military. i will bet you, capitalism would not have made that possible. it was not an economic failure. only a political failure. of course, as the rest of europe moved from industry to a service economy, ussr could not keep up. eventually the economy did fail, and it could no longer afford to keep tanks in east germany and the rest of eastern europe, which is the only real reason for the breakup of ussr. but it was a pretty good run, economically speaking. russia saw more growth in that period than many other countries. you were further behind the rest of europe in 1917 than in 2017. if only moustache man hadnt killed 20 million people, it would have been even better.
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  9.  @pigeon9116  I have doubts that Russia would invade Finland if you did stay neutral, there is not much for them to gain there except a few ports in the Baltic. But, considering this war in Ukraine came with no warning, for no reason, and it is the first conflict on European continent since Yugoslavia fell apart in the 90s, it is important to make a clear message, as a united Europe, that this is not acceptable under any circumstance. Not again. The last 2 times are enough evidence that whatever the prize may be, total war in Europe will only have losers. No one wins. With Finland in, Russia now has only a worse position, sharing a border with NATO members from the polar circle all the way to Turkey. There is no way a depleted Russian army can defend this entire border. All they have left now is the empty threat of going nuclear. And, you are in no way worse off than you would be by staying neutral. If they don't attack, it wasn't a bad decision, and if they do attack, it was definitely a good decision.
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  10. 11 trillion theoretical dollars in the ground doesnt equal 11 trillion in your hand.
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  11. forcing war reparations is a guarantee you will have another war. ww1 showed that. after ww2 germany did not have to pay reparations, it in fact received massive amounts of foreign aid, which resulted in a peace never before seen in europe. i hope we will be wise enough to do the same and pull russia into the european sphere of influence.
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  12. With a username like that, obviously what you say must be true.
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  13. the europe centric economy is very much a reality. just look at the world map. who is in the center? china is at one edge of the pacific. USA at the other edge. shipping across this vast ocean to stop at one port is not economically feasible compared to shipping from hong kong to rotterdam and stopping at 20 ports along the way to buy and sell cargo. therefore the global trade will continue to be focused on europe. USA will make sure the middle east never industrializes and russia is doing everything in its power to stay economically irrelevant in this century.
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  14. weird, i didnt notice the power or heating going out this winter
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  15.  @Suksass  no, but i buy chinese and i dont even want to know whats in there. its cheaper than cooking myself and tastes great though.
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  16.  @orkako  Cheap resources are one thing. Having an economy capable of extracting and transporting those resources is another. Russia at this point doesnt have enough qualified working age men to send to the frontlines. What makes you think they have the men to mine natural resources, not just for their own use, but for sale to other countries? And thats just the raw materials. Cheap electricity? First of all, it will be produced with fossil fuels, which means forget about those climate targets, and secondly, the investments required to build a HVDC line from Russia to Western Europe will be on the order of tens of billions of euros. The climate for investment in 1991 was completely different. Back then, it was pure chaos and there were many opportunities for ruthless men to get very rich. Now, there are established hierarchies and everyone knows you wont get any business done in Russia without fiat from the Kremlin itself and at least one of the oligarchs in Putins clique, who own everything, and they will take the bulk of the profits, and as soon as they dont need you anymore, you will end up under a bridge around the corner from the Kremlin and they own your business now. This is how they operate, they even do this to native Russians. How do you think they will treat foreigners? The only way trade with Russia will be restored is if they unconditionally surrender, NATO sets up an occupation zone in the European parts of the Russian federation, and we invest a hundred billion euro in developing the economy and infrastructure in the region.
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  17. moscow and petersburg are the only two places in russia that have such salaries. so you are giving the high end of the spectrum. not the average. recession in europe will barely be noticed, economy shrinks 1% and russians think we are a failed state lol with governments investing in actual infrastructure and military instead of bailing out banks we will be back in the green pretty soon. obviously there is a stock market crash coming but stock market has little to do with real economy these days. you dont have to worry about europe failing. we have been here for a lot longer than russia has existed and will be here for a while longer.
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  18. if you call hamas a terrorist group, what is the israeli government?
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  19.  @joeylaramie7398  it is like that. its like that everywhere these days. china is the same as well. western europe as well. the capitalists have won a long time ago.
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  20.  @rainieresguerra-uw7on  dont forget about suriname either, everyone is sleeping on that sweet oil bubble. if only we didnt grant them independence id be richer than the average norwegian.
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  21. This is an existential conflict. Neither side will stop until the others are dead, or leave and never come back. This has been obvious for decades. The arab nations around Israel do not want an Israeli state to exist and Israel wants all the land that their god supposedly gifted them thousands of years ago. I dont see how this is news to anyone.
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  22.  @mikel9138  most of europe stopped playing that game after 1945. we agreed to not do that thing again because it costs more than its worth. russia however, didnt RSVP to the meeting and didnt read the memo.
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  23.  @kerlkirill  people who are harassing russians online for the crime of living in russia, are not representative of general sentiment in europe towards russians. most people understand, wars are not caused by ordinary people, they are caused by politicians, military industrial complex, intelligence agencies, etc. as far as im concerned the Z gopniks are fair game but apolitical russians, or those that are against the war, dont need to be treated with hostility. after putler is removed from power or dead, it is only in interest of european countries to normalize relations asap. russia has things we need. oil, gas, lebensraum. we have money. its a match made in heaven.
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  24.  @Ls151000  at the beginning of the 20th century russia was one of the most poor countries in europe with nonexistent industry, even if serfdom had been abolished already the effects of it would still be very visible. just like in the usa, after slavery was abolished, the south remained impoverished relative to the northern states up to now, russia has been impoverished relative to other european countries. you cant catch up from behind using the same capitalist system. youll just get bought up by the germans like is currently happening in poland, chechia, greece, etc.
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  25. Ze Germans, obviously.
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  26. european economy (and american as well) is looking bad because the fed and ecb kept interest at or near 0 from 2008 to 2022 to artificially prop up an economy that should have been in recession. and now the chickens are coming home to roost. it has little to do with russia. its because of the inflation caused by central banks printing money and giving it away for free, when there is no real economic growth.
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  27. Americans are angry because they have realized their government spends more on wars on other continents than on improving the living conditions of their own people. Did they realize this 70 years too late? Yes. Nonetheless, it is true. They realized finally, that Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War 1, Gulf War 2: Electric Boogaloo and Afghanistan, just to name a few of their exploits, didn't gain them anything except a massive economic and political dependence on the military industrial complex, which frikking Eisenhower already warned about. That being said, obviously, economic and material aid to Ukraine is literally the least NATO members can do, and Russia is not anyone's friend.
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  28. Russia exported to Europe because we were willing to pay the highest price. Replacing that export partner with India and China obviously results in loss of revenue. Otherwise, why were you selling gas and oil to NATO members instead of your "allies" like China?
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  29.  @maritaschweizer1117  yes because they exported oil to europe which was more profitable than lng. go to a gas station that has lng. the prices are much lower. and it has to be pressurized. in fact most of the lng sold in western europe is a byproduct of oil refinement done locally and from gas reserves on the continent. well, before the war in ukraine anyway. now we are importing it. lng terminals are being built in our harbors now. they werent built before because we didnt need them. its more profitable to refine cheap brent oil and sell the lng extracted from it. also, our own wells are drying up in the north sea area. also, there are tankers that transport lng, its not strictly pipelines, which is where those greek ships funded by china come into the picture again.
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  30.  @humanyoda  USA isnt dumb enough to start a war in Europe. They just bully countries in South America and Asia where they can get away with it. There was only one way Russia could get the entire continent to unite against you and that is by starting another total war when we agreed to never do that again after ww2. As a wise man once said: Congratulations. You played yourself.
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  31. economy of germany alone is more than 2x russian economy. EU economy 10x russia. USA economy 15x Russia. You are outgunned 25 to 1. simple facts.
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  32.  @breakbollocks9164  no one, not even ukraine, is advocating for invasion into russia. that is not the war goal. the war goal is restoration of ukraines borders.
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  33. sure, but on the short term, you have to order a second missile before you shoot the first one and it takes time to build and ship it. you can only get value with it when it arrives. in the interim, if you fire your first rocket, you are now down a rocket and its replacement cost. if russia cant afford the replacement cost up front, they will run out of missiles.
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  34. you know, there are people who believe what they hear on the news in USA and Europe as well when most of that is also government propaganda.
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  35.  @chico9805  No, our narrative is that it is the short term goal of these sanctions to hurt the Russian war effort, and end goal of these sanctions in best case is to have putler deposed and brought to The Hague so that Russia can open its economy and people to the rest of the world instead of being a pariah state. No one set a timeline for this. Nor do we think it is a likely outcome. But we can hope you will come to your senses and get rid of putler.
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  36. no western chips = no modern equipment for russia. they can only produce soviet era weaponry with analog technology. sure, they wont run out of ak47s before they run out of manpower. but they cant replace their modern tanks. thats due to the sanctions. no one is stating russias economy will collapse completely and they wont be able to continue fighting. but they will be less effective the longer this takes.
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  37.  @covfefe1787  russias economy is about 70% larger than that of a small european country like the netherlands. thats not too big to fail.
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  38. Germany is investing massively in industry thanks to this wake up call from Russia. Inflation is a problem, yes. So are refugees. The difference between us and Russia is that we had an economy to start with :)
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  39.  @P00009  nice putler propaganda. now back to reality. ukraine is pushing for nato membership voluntarily. no one is forcing anyone. putin doesnt need to fear nato because it is a defensive alliance. the only way he will trigger a war with NATO is if he attacks us. if ukraine for example attacks russia, or any other NATO member attacks Russia, the others dont help. the EU has been taken over by US neocons 30 years ago so youre late to that party as well.we have been funding the american financial and military sectors for decades lmao. go read a book. as for "cooperation" with Russia, how has that ever worked out for anyone in the past? oh right, they got backstabbed every time. you cant cooperate with a man holding a knife behind his back.
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  40.  @stefanaursulesei6104  Germany investing hundreds of billions into defense spending is not inertia. Try and remember what happened last time they remilitarized the Rhineland. I remember reading about that in history class...I see visions of German tanks crossing borders, into the east. Something about Lebensraum...
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  41.  @crawkn  however, on the very short term, you have to pay for the replacement before firing the first missile. and russia is out of money. there wont be a third missile.
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  42. just because it is slightly over the cap doesnt mean the price controls arent reducing price elasticity. you have failed economics class. back to school, kiddo. come back and talk with adults when you know what youre talking about.
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  43. economic collapse can take a while. look at usa, they have been collapsing since the 70s.
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  44.  @alexeishayya-shirokov3603  of course, you are being sarcastic, but seriously, you should be worried about the state of the economy. with demographic decline and a lot of working age men either dead or on the front line, it is not looking great for russia long term. nor is it looking good for japan, china, south korea, EU countries, or USA, for the same reason of aging population and decline.
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  45. the US economy adjusted for inflation is not growing and it hasnt been for a long time.
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  46.  @breakbollocks9164  countries in africa, mostly, because they cant afford food from most other countries. south america will have issues as well. europe wont run out of food. we produce enough for ourselves and have the worlds second largest food exporting country. netherlands exports about 80% of what we produce. we can feed half of the EU by ourselves.
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  47. you clicked on it
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  48. it has always been like this. who do you think sold weapons to iraq and afghanistan?
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  49. implying israel isnt evil for what they have been doing to the palestinians for decades? there are no good guys in this conflict.
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  50.  @realnapster1522  the sanctions arent the reason for the upcoming economic recession. the fed and ecb keeping interest at or below 0 since 2008, up to 2022, are the reason for the upcoming recession.
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