Comments by "George Carty" (@GCarty80) on "Russia Did Something Dumb... Again" video.

  1.  @RedJadeArt  The British certainly believed Ireland was overpopulated and encouraged emigration (I've amended my original comment accordingly), but I not sure what the British government could have done differently. UK government debt in 1847 was 140% of GDP (due to the enormous borrowing to pay for the Napoleonic Wars), and a quarter of the government's budget was being spent on famine relief. The Whigs were a minority government (dependent on the Peelites) and were unable to get enough votes to increase income tax, while an attempt to borrow $8m to pay for famine relief caused a double financial crisis with interest rates spiking from 3.5% to 8%: the highest the BoE base rate had been since 1694. Chancellor Charles Wood was thus forced to cut spending, and the Irish paid the price.
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  2.  leicesterfromabove8925  Are the people there for Russia, or only the (mostly) dictators who rule them?
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  3. And the British were far more successful in erasing the Irish language than the Russians were in erasing the Ukrainian language. Albeit this was probably helped by the fact that that they had a policy of encouraging the Irish to emigrate, and the most favoured destination for Irish emigrants was the (also English-speaking) USA.
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  4. I'm guessing the idea is to help the European far right, by flooding Europe with starving Middle Eastern refugees?
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  5. Although denazification did require that Germany be utterly defeated and occupied, which is unlikely to be practical in Russia's case because of nuclear weapons. And even total defeat and occupation isn't always enough: the American South was pretty thoroughly smashed in 1865, but still managed to defeat Radical Reconstruction.
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  6. But do the oligarchs now have the ability to stop this war, even if they wanted to?
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