Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "Why has AUSTRALIA rebelled against CHINA? (And Korea not followed in its footsteps)" video.

  1. S. Korea actually faces an existential threat from China, thanks to its neighbour to the north, who only China has influence over. Australia doesn't. Their two geopolitical circumstances are completely different.
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  2. ​ @thomasowen2585  If there is a war between China and western democracies (more like China and America, I don't see China and Denmark going to war anytime soon...), it'll be because they stepped in (not that I'm necessarily opposed to that, but it's worth recognizing what's actually happening there). China has neither the inclination nor the capability to invade the American or European heartlands. As for democracy, human rights and world order...ummm. The US is infamous for both supporting and toppling democracies as it suits them. Last I checked the right to life is a fundamental human right, and millions of people have had that denied to them thanks to western warmongering. And world order? Whose order exactly? That sounds like just another way of saying 'hegemony'. The 'West', more specifically America because Ireland and Estonia and Finland and so on are actual nice places, only looks good because it commits its crimes more abroad than at home. Also helps that the global media landscape is dominated by the West, which while not govt. controlled still caters to western audiences. But numbers don't lie. China has killed fewer people since Deng i.e. in the last 50 or so years than America has, while raising over 800 million of them out of poverty. Hell, for all the faux concern over its Uighur internment camps (from a country that itself has bombed and killed Muslims galore in their homelands mind), America even has a lot more people incarcerated than they do (2.3 million versus their 1-1.5 million), despite having a quarter of China's population. Their govt. may be ambitious and duplicitous, but on the other hand America is also insufferably self-righteous and hypocritical. My own country doesn't rely on the US to defend it - we have the worlds' 4th most powerful military for that purpose - because we've seen how unreliable they can be (for example, favoring our enemy Pakistan when it happened to suit them). S. Korea is also doing what it believes it needs to to get by, and that's despite it having US protection. Because we face real danger, while you lot wring your hands over a mere loss of global influence.
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  3.  @jonnydoeson5562  “but they’re doing it too!” - nope. There is no 'too' there. Cos so far they're the only ones doing it. Try again. And ironically, I come from India - another Chinese antagonist and one of the few countries China has actually gone to war with. Still, at least the Chinese don't moralize about how they're god's gift to the world half as much as Uncle Sam does. S. Korea has skin in the game. So does India. We do what we must to preserve ourselves. I ain't interested in indulging a Yank whose never faced real existential threat and yet treats their mere loss of hegemony as the end of the world.
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  4. @CyberPunker00 Err...did you just dismiss an entire CONTINENT of people, of a multitude of races, religions, nationalities and ethnicities, as lacking 'loyalty and honor'? And from what exalted pedestal, pray? The one from which allies and enemies have been repeatedly chosen based on subservience and political convenience? Also, you seem to be historically ignorant - S. Korea was itself a dictatorship at the time. It was saved not because of some grand principles, but simply because it was an ally, and risked being taken over by an enemy (not just N. Korea, but Russia and China). Same reason over 2 million Vietnamese had to die, despite not a single bullet being fired on American soil.
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  5. Lol, the Mediterranean Sea isn't named after any of the countries currently around it. Hasn't stopped them from fighting over it.
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  6.  @jonnydoeson5562  Keep telling yourself that. I see your scaremongering about a nation that hasn't gone to war in decades and raise you one that's been at war (and still is) all over the world for most of the last century. Here, a glimpse into who the non-American world typically sees as the greatest threat to world peace - https://brilliantmaps.com/threat-to-peace/ China may very well be threat to neighbours like S. Korea, who're allied with their main antagonist. But to pretend they're gunning conflicts the world over is plain partisanship, given the existing hegemon who gets a free pass despite already doing exactly that.
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  7. S. Korea actually faces an existential threat from China, thanks to its neighbour to the north, who only China has influence over. Australia doesn't. Their two geopolitical circumstances are completely different.
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  8.  @dennisp8520  Is Australia a US puppet state then?
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  9. S. Korea actually faces an existential threat from China, thanks to its neighbour to the north, who only China has influence over. Australia doesn't. Their two geopolitical circumstances are completely different.
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