Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "RealLifeLore" channel.

  1.  @moyu-mi  No one bordering Russia can stay "neural". They regularly interfere with the democratic process in other nations and act with hostility towards neighbouring countries. Quite frankly they've been more aggressive under Putin then they where during the cold war. Violating the airspace and waters of neighbouring countries, operating spies near military bases. Given that Russia all the way back to the days of the grand duchy of muscowy has rejected the Ukrainian ethnicity, culture and language being separate from that of Muscowy, Russia, and their right to independence... It's kind of hard to be neutral to another nation rejecting your right to exist... So from another nation bordering Russia, Norway. Slava Ukraina. We can't afford to fight with you. WW3 would be even more devastating. But we're going to support you as much as we can.
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  2. +michael howell Not everyone watch the Simsons, at all. I'm one of the people who don't.
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  3. ​​​​​ @dendrien  You're mixing up Norway and I'm guessing Denmark? The invasion of Norway during WW2 started on the 8th of April 1940, the approval for the allied retreat from Norway came on the 24th of May, Norway was informed on the 1st of June that our allies would abandon us, on the 7th it was decided to evacuate our king and government and setting up a government in exile as continuing the fight without allied supplies would become untenable. Allied forces finished their evacuation on the 8th, while Norwegian ones maintained rearguard actions for another two days before the capitulation of Norway on the 10th of June. After two months and two days of fighting. Continued fighting would absolutely have been possible if the allied forces hadn't decided to withdraw, something they did because of the news of the invasion of France. Given how the defence of France failed and with the power of hindsight those forces would probably have been better used remaining in Norway threatening Germanys supply of iron during the winter and depriving them of bases they used to attack convoys between the allies and the Soviet Union. That said, France was a far more important ally to the UK at the time then Norway was. With a bigger population to commit to the fight and a larger navy to support the vital blockade of Germany. And with the fall of Norway our merchant fleet ended up supplying the UK, at pne point supplying half their oil I believe, and a significant portion of their food etc... Our merchant fleet ended up keeping the UK in the war long enough for US shipbuilding to make a difference. Without us they would have been forced to start negotiating a peace deal, allowing Germany to get vital supplies they lacked for their war on the eastern front as well as freeing up troops from the west. Norway was anything but easy to invade despite intentionally keeping military spending low for a long time in order to not provoke a certain Austrian...
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  4. ​​ @manniking233  Norway borders Russia and about 18% of our population is either foreign born or has a foreign born parent (we don't register ethnicity or race, only citizenship, and place of birth of inhabitants and their parents)
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  5. ​ @dendrien  Mountains are useful when defending a country, Norway has them, Denmark did not.
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  6. We're aware of those considerations. We just consider them less important then the sovereignty of a nation bordering Russia. Accepting a Russian naval port is probably going to be required in order to get a peace treaty. But Europe has many countries bordering Russia and giving up a inch of Crimea just isn't a option...
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  7. Right, and where exactly should that meter start? You'd get different results if you start in the north or the south of Norway for instance using a meter as the precision of your measurements... Also, quite frankly parts of Norway are still rising after having been squeezed flat by the glaciers during the last ice age. The rock that was squeezed together still haven't expanded fully to its normal size again. And then there's climate change and therefore the change in amount of water on the planet. Not to mention that the distribution of that water also changes over time. For instance, do you measure during a full moon and a tide or at low tide? And gravity slowly changes in different places meaning that the amount of water being attracted to different places of earth changes. And the moon is on its way away from Earth changing the tides etc etc. Whatever you do there's simply no way in hell of getting an accurate repeatable result...
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  8. ​ @inspectorvoid  Greenhouses still need light to make sense, light isn't available during the winter in Norway. As for the soil, most of it has been scraped away by glaciers, leaving only areas that was underwater when the ice age glaciers melted actually with quality soil, that thankfully slowly became available for farming as the land rose, no longer compacted by the weight of all of the ice. The cold is also a issue. All of these things compounds to increase the cost of farming both inside lighthouses and outside them quite significantly, compared to just importing food. Especially if you include the cost of Norwegian labour. If we hadn't voted no to joining the EU allowing us to have tarrifs on agricultural products we probably wouldn't have had any competitive agricultural products produced in Norway. As is we're specializing. We have some fjords suitable for things like Norwegian apples etc. Since our products grow slower they're often quite nutritious compared to areas where plants grow faster and also tastier. Our crops can be finished in between the harvests in other countries where they might have two harvests pr season, we only get one, but it's with less competition and often of higher quality. Likewise, we can't grow large areas of grasses like wheat, but our mountains and islands still support sheep and goats grazing there, even if they're rocky. You can't do just anything here and make it work. You need a viable market and a viable strategy that's competitive in said market. Other producers in other countries will be cheaper. So you need to find other ways to compete. Greenhouses are absolutely a part of the mix here, but they can't do the bulk production, they can do niche products that's sold at a higher price due to being locally produced, but that's only viable for a certain amount of market share. And Norwegian greenhouses had to cut production due to high energy prices when we where exporting power to Europe after the start of the war in Ukraine too, just like the continental ones did. Greenhouses can't solve every problem.
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  9.  @Kimjungun266  We here in the nordics have been bordering Russia for a long time. It was possible to talk to the USSR. Putin, not so much. You can't be safe without outside allies with such agressors. Especially because Russia never recognized Ukraines right to independence or even a separate identity... They've always been trying to stamp out Ukrainian culture...
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  10. ​ @YDdraigGoch43  It's not cheap to get things from the EU. Part of why we haven't joined is in order to make their products expensive enough to make our own viable despite their high costs. Locally grown products are never going to be as cheap here as something produced in a more suitable environment.
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  11.  @RichardNVang  Nukes have nothing to do with this excerpt ensuring that NATO and the west isn't duking it out directly for this. Because invading Ukraine was unacceptable. Russia could perhaps have gotten away with capturing some land. But trying to invade their capital Soviet style doesn't fly these days.
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  12.  @ValerianOcean  The war shouldn't ever have happened in the first place... And I'm sorry that you have to deal with it. And yeah, Ukraine has room for improvement when it comes to their political class... Ukrainian treatment of minority languages as a example is not exactly inspiring... And previous goverments have been quite corrupt... I hope that you'll have better leaders when the war is over and you're rebuilding. On the whole Zelensky doesn't seem too bad. But we hardly got a chance to see what he can do in peace time before the war. He has gained a lot of respect though and he should be able to get a lot of western resources for the rebuilding. My own countrys goverment has pledged huge sums already for both the war effort and the rebuilding, and will continue to support you for long after the war is over.
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  13. Ace Of Blazes Eh, most muslim countries through the ages seem to have stuck to just regular discrimination through things like extra taxation, not outright killing...
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  14. Ace Of Blazes I really recommend that you read up on Islam a bit, because you're assuming a ton of things about Islam that's just not true. Islamism (a particular form of radical islam) is a fairly new phenomenon created in (among other places) Egypt in the wake of western colonialism over there... Personally I'm a European atheist, but seriously, look at the world, first of all we've made huge improvements to it, the narrative that things are getting worse globally, is just bs. And "religious wars" are almost universally caused by or fueled by non-religious motivations. shrugs
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  15. Ace Of Blazes Look at history, Christianity easily have the most terrorists of the 3 monotheistic religions... Islam didn't have any inquisition or crusades where they killed anyone of other faiths, when they captured cities they left the citizens in peace for the most part as long as they accepted muslim rule and payed the extra taxes on non-muslims. Jihad is a muslim obligation to fight, either defensivly or in some interpretations to fight evil within yourself. As for the quote you mentioned, I certainly don't see any evidence in that quote that the "fight" in question is physical in any way, you fight your demons every day in your mind if you're like most people on this planet... As for tension between muslims and others... Prior to the creation of Israel, Muslims, Christians and Jews coexisted just fine in most muslim nations around the world, easily beating Christian and Secular nations in peaceful coexistence... Of course there where exceptions. But I really don't think singling out Islam as any worse then the other two makes sense at all... If anything I'd claim that all the Abrahamic faiths are more warlike and disrespectful towards both human and animal life then the polytheistic religions in the east as well as Shamanism. But not that one of those three are any worse then the other two...
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  16. +You'reInMySpot The US and Germany are only the most charitable nations in absolute numbers, if you go money spent pr citizen they both look a bit worse. Mind you, they're still on the high side, just not at the actual top anymore.
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  17. ​ @inspectorvoid  We border Russia, supplying Europe with energy is vitally important for our independence. Europe depends on us, they're our biggest market, pissing off your customers are usually a bad idea, especially if you buy a lot of stuff from them too... The alternative is coal power, causing more climate change, that's even more noticable up here in the north, meaning that sending them our power is cheaper then investing in even more climate change mitigations against things like the storms that has been ravaging the country recently... And furthermore, sometimes we depend on power from the continent too. If precipitation drops we have to buy more power from the EU. Especially if we get two or three years in a row with low precipitation as well as little wind... Selling our power isn't a thoughtless choice, it's calculated and deemed essential.
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  18. ​ @baardhaveland  Well said. ;-)
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  19. ​ @waynegnarlie1  The US isn't entirely doomed. At a federal level it's a really dysfunctional country. But it's still possible to get independent candidates elected at both a state and federal level. And with some luck you might one day manage to put a end to the first past the post electoral system. If you do and manage to switch to something more proportional and perhaps some form of parliamentarianism you could actually fix your democracy. But even failing that, there's genuinely people trying to fix the country. It might take decades, but there are actually good measures working its way through the system right now in the US that with time will improve the country.
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  20. ​What do you mean? The Norse culture and even the Nordic bronze age culture developed in southern Norway as well as Denmark, southern Sweden and northern Germany.
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  21.  @Viktor20689  The US wouldn't care about Russia much if Russia didn't keep acting like the US wasn't the only reason Britain and France isn't using cyrillic yet... Russia is landlocked and technologicaly behind and barely any threat at all to the US... But the US depends on trade with Europe. And we need a free environment around us. Russia suppressing other ethnic groups either inside or outside your borders just doesn't fly...
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  22.  @Odah_  I wouldn't say crumbling... But Putin definitely made life a lot harder for everyone in the world with that invasion... It disrupted world trade that was already disrupted by other recent events...
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  23.  @moyu-mi  Exactly, so why is Russia provoking NATO right next to EU borders with this behavior? Russias behavior in Georgia was bad enough. And maybe they could have gotten away with Crimea. But they kept going. That's why they're facing a NATO willing to do anything to defeat them short of starting a nuclear armageddon. Russia will lose this war even if it where to take centuries. It's simply a fact. NATO can keep going. Our economies are barely hurting, but Russia definitely can't keep up.
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  24.  @helengrunow5094  May I ask what you where commenting on when you wrote that? I've written a few comments. It's hard to keep track of it all.
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  25. You could probably get there without Norway having any way of stopping you. However if there's any proof of you being there afterwards (like say a corpe or any garbage) then of course you've commited a crime and they'll react accordingly... (Most likely a hefty fine for you, or if you're dead your estate, aka your next of kin)
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  26. You didn't mention how many civilian casualities that Serbia had. Given that they had the biggest military casualities it would have been interesting to see their civilian ones too.
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  27. @Ciara Cox While the chances are low you might want to look north and west to the Atlantic Ridge... Iceland and plenty of other places along that ridge could potential create a volcanic eruption capable of causing a tsunami hitting Ireland. Also, landslides? Oh, and the Canary Islands...
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  28. +Viidakonyka98 That's debatable... There's a reason why it fell in the first place. Ok, granted the following is a simplification and there's a ton more stuff involved, but still. For a start Sweden was and is more focused towards mainland Europe, they've always been more continental then the rest of us, that's part of why they ended up in the EU while Norway didn't. Norway on the other hand has always been both more insular and more focused towards the sea, the later of those two things where also true for Denmark. A result of that is that we've always been striving towards maintaining good relations with whoever is the dominant power at sea, back then the UK, now the US (and that's a big part of why we're in NATO while Sweden isn't, and it's also why Denmark is a part of NATO, that and Denmark and Sweden could never agree on the terms for a Nordic defensive alliance back in the day) Furthermore how the different countries are put together also impacts how they work. Norway and Iceland are low population density coastal nations with unique challenges that more urbanized nations like Sweden and Denmark do not face. In short, while I do believe that we could benefit from some form of union, it would have to be a much looser union then the Kalmar union to remain stable, based on mutual cooperation of independent nations rather then a unified government. Basically a strengthened version of the Nordic Council.
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  29. +Ahura Mazda Reminds me of the Norman (viking really) conquest of southern Italy and Sicily. Sicily actually ended up saving many classical Greek works due to the relative tolerance of the Norman overlords towards the partially Muslim population
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  30. Ahuratchek Cartman?
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  31. Ahuratchek A racist I'm guessing?
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  32. Ahuratchek Ok? In a series with the same name?
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  33. Ahuratchek Ah, figures. Not my thing.
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  34. Ahuratchek There's other ways of approaching said topics. Southpark isn't and will never be my preferred approach. As for how "simplistic" it is, I cannot say, I've never watched a full episode, I've always had enough after a few minutes...
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  35. Ahuratchek I think it depends on the person. It's just not my type of humor...
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  36. Jugger Pot Again, it depends on the time frame and people involved more then their actual faith.
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  37. Ace Of Blazes Likewise the Bible (new testament included) can be quite horrifying at times too... What matters however is how they're used, and if you look at Islam historically there's been a separation of religion and state in some form or other in muslim states for ages.
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  38. Ace Of Blazes " And one question, why do you wish to take such exception to one of the four worst religions in history? All of them have caused vast amounts of damage to the world and curved advancement. So why come to the defense of the one shoving out the most terror attacks in recent history? You say to oppose them all, but why defend one and damn the others?" Because you're redacting history by claiming that they're somehow claiming that it's the one with the most terror attacks in recent history when it is in fact not the group with the most terror attacks in recent history, neither world wide nor in the great majority of western nations. Heck, even in the middle east religious motivations are dwarfed by political ones in the case of most terrorists out there. Also, I didn't say that I'm against religion, I simply said that I'm an atheist myself. There's a ton of really smart people that are religious, and and even though I don't agree with their world view I can respect them as well as disagree with their choices without throwing out simplifications like claiming that poor decisions on their part is solely caused by religion when they are in the wast majority of cases caused by other things instead.
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  39. Ace Of Blazes Right, Sweden is the "rape capital of the world"... "In 2014, there were 6,700 rapes reported to the Swedish police — or 69 cases per 100,000 population — according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå), which is an 11 percent increase from the previous year. The number of convictions have remained relatively unchanged since 2005, with approximately 190 convictions on average each year. There have been several international comparisons made, placing Sweden at the top end of the number of reported rapes. However, police procedures and legal definitions vary widely across countries, which makes it difficult to compare rape statistics. For example, Sweden reformed its sex crime legislation and made the legal definition of rape much wider in 2005, which largely explains a significant increase in the number of reported rapes in the ten-year period of 2004-2013. The Swedish police also record each instance of sexual violence in every case separately, leading to an inflated number of cases compared to other countries. Additionally, the Swedish police have improved the handling of rape cases, in an effort to increase the number of crimes reported. Raised awareness and a shifting attitude of crimes against women in Sweden, which has been ranked as the number one country ingender equality may also explain the relatively high rates of reported rape." Or in other words, you get the exact same rapes in the US, Canada, or any other western nation they just don't show in the statistics...
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  40. You didn't mention that the death toll of that Icelandic eruption actually is estimated to be 6 millions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanic_eruptions_by_death_toll And then there's volcanic eruptions on a even greater scale like the one that began dividing Europe and the US...
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  41. +ToldYouSo The majority of your nuclear arsenal lies within the area impacted by this volcano. The same applies to a majority of your military resources. You'd still have a decent sized navy afterwards but that's about it... You'd be in no position to invade anyone, at most you could ensure safe passage for your refugees to the shores of another country and protect the US from being invaded by anyone else who does not already have a land border with you. And since Canada would essentially be destroyed as well that only leaves Mexico as potentially able to move some troops into the US after such an event... (But honestly all of South and Central America would also be affected even if it's to a lesser degree then Canada and the US so their resources would also be severely reduced...)
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  42. Excuse me but +VintageLJ, +You'reInMySpot and +Certified Fresh Memes but what are you guys smoking? Of course most of those fleeing are refugees. Regarding economic migrants it's a case of being left to starve to death or being raped in countries around the war zone that "accept the refugees in" or continuing fleeing to Europe and the US. And regarding number 3 you really think that the problem is the refugees and not the nation they're entering when they're not being integrated? As for Americans being well educated? Jeez... I'd hire an average Syrian over an average American any day. The Syrians where well educated before the war while the American education system has been decaying for years with only the upper class private schools still holding decent standards. Also, don't fool yourself, a whole continent fleeing, Europe would shut our borders, simply because we wouldn't be able to cope with that kind of numbers, just look at what happened with Syria, and that's just a single fairly small country with a well educated and generally fairly moderate population. As for the current situation with ISIS over there, that was honestly caused by us in the west, and not by Syria somehow being all that religious to begin with... And Certified Fresh Memes, seriously, look at the states... You think they don't have plenty of local terrorists? Mindsets that puts ISIS to shame is already well represented there, the only thing keeping the US from blowing up like a barrel of gunpowder is that their economic and political stability hasn't gone down enough to trigger a civil war yet leaving just individuals who ain't cooperating too much doing relatively minor things like school shootings...
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  43. +SkullCrusher In absolute numbers yes you do, in terms of resources pr citizen you're not really at the top however... Although that does depend a bit on your sources. The thing is, you're just as much a continent as a country, so you'd essentially have to compare to the whole of the EU to get a fair comparison since that's the only other continent that's mostly made up of first world nations... Anyway, a huge portion of the good will that the aid in question might have generated is kind of cancelled out by how the US use aid to force through US interests in negotiations essentially making a huge chunk of the aid a form of bribes... Doesn't mean that there isn't still countries who's still more willing to help you out because of that aid then they'd otherwise be. But those countries are still in a poor position to help you much and most of the countries that are in a position to help are not exactly benefiting from that aid of yours. If anything those countries often has been forced to accept unfavorable trade deals over many many years from you and mainly support you as a lesser evil compared to others...
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  44. 21:46 EU citizenship? Greenland left the EU and is not a member, despite Denmark being a member.
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  45. Hum, what about the Atlantic ocean and the Artic ocean?
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  46. ​ @FaerieDragonZook  We do. Nothing technical about it, we absolutely do.
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  47. ​ @KABLAMMATS  Oh, wow. I'm guessing that you're joking? If not, may I ask where you're from?
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  48. 5:19 The only real overseas dependency? There's quite a few other ones that I reeally don't get why you wouldn't call "real"... Bjørøya, Svalbard etc...
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  49. The US tends to act like elephants in a porcelain store... Its natural for them to have influences around the world as a superpower... But that doesn't mean that it's okay for them to turn to violence all the time like they do, or act without holding their troops responsible for their actions...
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  50.  @LautaroTessi  100 meters is way to long to measure Norways coast accurately. 1 meter increments is probably the best. I'd prefer decimeters, but that would probably be too detailed to really be possible.
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