Comments by "" (@urrywest) on "Firstpost" channel.

  1. It is suggested that the information that the russians got suggest that the UK was responsible for the nord stream pipeline breaches.
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  2.  @MiddleEast-4Ever  Zelensky is lucky if he walks away with his life.
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  3. If it was not obvious I don't think there would be an objection..... It seems like most things that he says are mostly obvious lies.
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  4. It is only when a strike is effective that it is illeagal.
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  5. Belarus will come out really well..
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  6. The war is about sanctions, not about Ukraine.... Ukraine doesn't even have a say in weather or not they fight to the last Ukrainian... They are a kind of colony of the west.
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  7. When the war in Ukraine broke out in February 2014?
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  8.  @tomdziczek9676  They crushed Ireland financially with the sub prime mortgage crisis... They crushed russia in the late nineties with the help of Yeltsin and they were fine with that... When Putin came in he reversed that process and that is why they don't like russia. Ireland and much of europe is going along with the sanctions to crush it's self and in doing so they are OK by the US.
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  9.  @seshadri.j  Expanding nato and the forever wars are by design to support the military industrial complex.
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  10.  @basook6116  When was EU democracy alive?
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  11. Price gouging by electricity monopolies is a huge part of the problem as well.
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  12.  @mamacryright5740  That is the way I like them: Cute and dummm.
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  13. Zelinsky is doing a good job of confusing the Ukraine army... Russia doesn't want him gone just yet.
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  14.  @zezenkop412  The Wagner group is an arm of the russian military... My understanding is that blackwater is now known as Mozart group... It is mostly funded by the US government but my understanding is that it is also a contract military group... Other contractors for the US include ISIS who has a little bit of a muslim Jihad flavor to them... They have what I understand to be a new Wasabi[sp] paradigm which is a Suni[sp] derivative... My feeling is that displaced Ukraine men will become a new ISIS in europe as a contract group or idle terrorists with a traditional Nazi flavor.
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  15.  @alangunningham5667  While the tanks and boots on the ground determine who wins the ground game, the ground game never seems to effect whether or not the US supports the military effort. Historically and of late the US has supported 'forever wars' where the US lost. Why do you think that the ground game in this case is different in that US support is contingent on gains on the ground? As for 'trolls' I prefer 'russian bot' . I had a russian bot avatar for a lot of years during the time when the US media said putin installed trump. While the media's narratives of late are not as outrageous they are consistent in that they are almost universally wrong.
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  16. It is like when someone blocks you on social media and you don't notice....
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  17. Maybe he knows that it is unlikely that he will survive this?... I suppose he is taking it day by day, with a pinch of snow.
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  18.  @Vidalin11  I am not sure he has a choice at this point... Zelinski is lucky if he survives the war.
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  19. It seems like nothing compared to what is comming... My understanding is that BASF has left germany because of high energy prices... I am not sure where they are going.... As more industry leaves because of high energy prices and germans cant afford the basics, what do you think will happen? Who do you think destroyed the nordstream pipelines? To be sure Germany must change it's leadership in order to avoid a major distater.
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  20. That doesn't address the query of whether or not the US will continue to support Nato efforts in Ukraine. Win/Loss makes no difference at all.
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  21.  @JAREDPLY1  Zelelinsky has been a big ally of russia.... He is not really a manager and his orginizational style has been a big part of the west losing for various reasons.
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  22. It sows confusion among it's own citizens as well.
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  23.  @stevenginn5352  I don't remember downing of the piece of hardware you referred to... Do you remember all the flap about the nord stream pipelines? There is also the flap about chinese IT infrastructure and hardware... Both gas and IT as well as food represent special interests in the US... The war is about the proposed sanctions.
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  24. Europe is likely to assume that russia destroyed the pipelines.
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  25.  @damn6  Russia has the best world currency increase this year. This suggests that they are gaining from the sanctions that are imposed ostensibly on europe... Many news sources suggest that not only did they switch to sell more gas in their currency but they got more money for less gas that they sold.
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  26. I am not at all sure that they have freedom of speech in the UK.
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  27. Dark brandon doesn't want to look weak in the face of defeat.
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  28.  @84Actionjack  The US millatary is essentially fiscally free to the US.... The reason they want the EU to spend more on their miliatary is becasue they want to extract everything out of the EU.
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  29. If Italy sopped sanctioning it's self off of russian energy, it is possible that it could take away energy businesses from germany and emerge as the strongest industrial economy in europe....
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  30. It is also aledged that chinese computers and cell phones are not alowed to be sold in the west because they don't have a 'back door' where intelegence agencies can see what you are saying and track your conversations.
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  31.  @corin164  Russian wheat is sill not moving as well... Ukraine launched attacks from the protected grain corridor as well... Russia put a stop to the corridor...
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  32.  @joshtep6784  I listen to Scott Ritter on matters like these... He seems to think that the russians will be looking at footprints and tire tracks in the snow and taking advantage of the lack of leaf cover in the woods.... ... When they see something moving in the theatre of opperation, they will send mortor rounds and missles... The tricky thing is that the cities have been rendered uninhabitable where as there is wood in the forest... Regugees might be in much of the forests as well.
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  33. That is so stupid.... How could the US run out of the dollars they make?
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  34. My instincts say it is all about the bengimins.....
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  35.  @angrypatata7084  You have never been hungry.... That is why you can say that.
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  36. This is like a bad ethic joke.... It is not true that lacking food makes you lose weight long term. Many even in the US are food insecure as well... I like ethic jokes but it has to be understood as a joke.... This sounds very uncharitable.
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  37. I am not sure why we have to say that china is being agressive in the south china sea... Needless to say, the US put war ships in between parts of china.
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  38.  @andyhughes1776  Ukraine means nothing at all to the powers that be.... They have no say in the war as well.... I am not sure why the generals are speaking out of turn.
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  39.  @johnynoway9127  That the WWII was not fought on US soil is one of the main advantages that the US had.... It didn't do the bulk of the fighting but it was certainly the victor economically..
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  40. Ukraine minister of defence has many out in the field and said openly that they were fighting for NATO....
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  41.  @investor615  Why? Western investors built up chinese industry because they had the best labor rates in the world. Now that they have come up with their own production in new markets to meet demands, supported by infrastructure and services that keep down the cost of labor, western monopolies are calling foul. Why all this vitriol for industrial capitalism?... Capitalism works... You should try it.
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  42. They recovered in record time from the neoliberalism of the late nineties. My feeling is that europe is going to have difficulty recovering from what they are experiencing right now.
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  43.  @FrankTheChrank  The news in the US is quickly being restricted and we actually have a formal 'minstry of truth' which is part of 'the department of homeland security' I find the whole prossess outragous. My impression is that it will continue until, in my case, I will have nothing but information given by official channels.... I consider stories by these sorces to be indications that the oposite is true.... My understanding is that in europe the process is compleate and that the europeans have no such traditon like we have of 'fredom of speech' which is enshrined in our constitnution.
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  44.  @williaminnes6635  So you feel that this war is more than a reason to give gifts to the military industrial complex? I feel that way myself. I feel that the war was a way to isolate europe from russia and china in the service of US's favored international monopolies in several markets.
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  45. As an american, I have mixed feelings about europe crumbling economically because they are sending some of their high energy businesses to the US where I am a mechanical designer.
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  46. There weren't enough weapons to fight russia to begin with... That is the saying "Yell loudly and carry a little twig".
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  47.  @ernestspanjers7240  Are you an american? Don't you think people like Bush, Hillary Clinton, Obummer and so on that destroyed infrastructure and societies all over the world by bombing them are the psychos you are referring to as well?
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  48. What happened to the Saud promise to sell oil in dollars? Absent that, it feels like the Saudis are on the west's shit list.
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  49.  @hilite975  If Zelensky is doing what he is told to do, then it isn't nessesarilly the US that is pulling the strings because he has been being a bit eratic even for western standards.
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  50. Good catch... They make it sound like components already optimized for the specific project...
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