Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "How does BIDEN hope to CONTROL ASIA-PACIFIC? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

What progress? The world is less safe and the economics, particularly inflation are worse than they were during the previous 4 years. Oh, but mean tweets are more important to you than the soaring cost of living, particularly energy and fuel costs.
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@kimandre336 I think you grossly underestimate Japan and South Korea. And you badly overestimate Red China and Russian ability. The fact that Ukraine last longer than the one week even the optimists expected shows that EVERYONE horribly overestimated the Russians. The Ukraine proved to be the sleeper in Europe. And they have Poland to thank in part for that.
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@_Mohit_Joshi The US never considered them client or vassal states, but partners (albeit junior partners). Client state is how the Soviet Union viewed its satellites. As for superiority, why shouldn't India be the big dog in that part of the world? Why shouldn't Brazil be the 800-pound gorilla in South America? Stop using the anti-US perspective and broaden your horizions.
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Funny because the people in the streets of Japan and South Korea tell a different story. And when you look at whom they elect to office, it speaks much about what they really believe.
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@absolootely2571 Wow, completely wrong on so many levels. First, Bush's "Shock and Awe" was basically Blitzkrieg on steroids by using precision guided munitions, not "rattling the rubble" as you claim. When the Iraq's ministry building had to be hit a second time with people only 10 meters away watching, that is hardly leveling the town as you claim. Second, it is the Russians who are leveling the cities and towns in Ukraine because they failed spectacularly with their own attempt at Blitzkrieg. Because they couldn't even do enveloping maneuvers, all they can do is bulldoze forward with indiscriminate shelling. The polar opposite of "thread the needle". But I get it, your news is a steady diet of RT and Pravda, which is dictated by the Kremlin.
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It also happens to be Davos collectivism when they claim, "international community".
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Wow, racist much? The fact that you think you know a person's race simply from their comments shows you lack in the wisdom department.
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Indeed. His hospital orderlies who call themselves "white house staff" are the ones running the show, and he is going off script faster than they can stop him.
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@ArawnOfAnnwn Nice revisionist history. More people have died at the hands of the Russians in the last three months than have died in the entire 20 years of the US in the middle east. But I get it, you are a rabid partisan who refuses to acknowledge hard facts which contradicts your religious-political view of the world.
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@lakshaysingh9743 Therre is no pint in arguing with this paid troll. He refuses to accept hard facts and instead engages in progoms typical of religious fanatics.
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Indeed. They have become globalist shills.
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Nice revisionism. When traditionally natural Sweden and Finland want to join NATO in response to this, your narrative falls on deaf ears. Not even the historically neutral Swiss believe your story.
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@_Mohit_Joshi I don't disagree that Putin lost the influence war over Ukraine and decided to use force instead of continuing to lose the soft power game. HOWEVER, the reason for Poland and the former Warsaw Pact joining NATO was precisely BECAUSE of Russia's history as the preeminent force in the USSR. In the 90s under Boris Yeltsin, there was an opportunity to bury the past and start anew with their former satellites. Russia could have rejected the Soviet past and sought to repair the relationship with its neighbors. Chechnya and Georgia's breakaway provinces showed them that the Bear was up to its old habits.
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@_Mohit_Joshi The Bidens and Burisma? I can agree to that. Then there is Joe Bite-me's comment about "minor incursion" that was basically an invitation to Putin on par with Dean Acheson's blunder with the Pacific Defense Perimeter excluding South Korea thereby inviting Kim Il-Sung to invade the South.
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Sure, because they are basically continuing much of what Trump started. Save for the fact that Biden basically invited Putin to invade with his "limited incursion" statement. Was just as much of a strategic blunder as Dean Acheson excluding South Korea from the Pacific Defense Perimeter, thereby inviting Kim Il- Sung to invade South Korea in 1950. And the administration's flip-flopping over whether they will defend Taiwan is only inviting Red China to call their bluff. But I guess "mean tweets" is worse than destabilizing the globe with uncertainty. Try to learn from history instead of relying on your feelings.
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@kimandre336 It isn't that Western media censors what is going on in East Asia, it is just that they don't really care. APATHY is more dangerous that outright censorship. Why? Streisand effect. Censorship paradoxically gets the message out BECAUSE it is censored. As far as "rose colored glasses", I don't disagree that Japanese leadership has screwed the pooch with regards to their lost decade. I also agree that their currency manipulation at the behest of Washington elites is also ruinous. If the Yen is strong against the dollar, that is the fault of the Federal Reserve, not the Japanese economy. That being said, I much prefer the leaders of East Asia's economic Tigers over the feckless cowards of Washington who kowtow to the totalitarians in Peking.
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@parthparekh9924 Nice job cherry picking your information (logical fallacy). But I get it, you resent that we kept the peace for 80 years. You resent the fact that you can't keep your own house in order so you blame the very people you would otherwise demand to fix your problems because you are too stubborn to fix them yourself.
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@_Mohit_Joshi I as an American don't like nor trust the Pakistanis. They are two-timing, double dealing hacks. They sheltered Bin-Laden and lies about it. They regularly deal with China, subverting US interests in the region. I very much prefer the land of Rajahs over the land of Jihadis. It is a shame that our mutual history as a colony of the English Crown isn't a stronger starting point for a better relationship.
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@absolootely2571 Complete delusional fantasy on your part. You clearly haven't visited either of those cities, only watch the propaganda from Jihadi videos. "Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities" -Voltaire
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@ahmedlusajogibbonsmwaikamb6099 Wow, nice apples to oranges false analogy (and a logical fallacy).
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@iamaloafofbread8926 And "Cheeto dictator" is living rent free in your head.
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@iamaloafofbread8926 Like what? Details, not bloviation. And "restore respect" is not a valid answer. Respect is EARNED not given. "Better to be feared than to be loved if you can't have both," -Niccolò Machiavelli.
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His hospital orderlies, I mean staffers are the ones calling the shots.
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@parthparekh9924 Elected or installed? "Shadow campaign" ring a bell? Chaning the election rules one month before ballots are cast (11th hour rule change) is one example of cheating and stealing an election. But I get it, you folks in Europe are used to the parties picking who will rule you long before your ballots are even printed. Illiberal Democracy is what that is. And the reason why the world's problems are America's problems is that TWO world wars started because of American isolationism. You people can't keep your continent from exploding in violence without America's presence. The recent war in Ukraine is just further proof of this.
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They don't trust the US because we have weak leadership. People respect a strong horse. The hold weak men in contempt.
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What coherence? The Biden folks have been completely flip-flopping on whether they would defend Taiwan from an invasion. Biden effectively invited Putin to invade Ukraine with his "limited incursion" statement. Trump emulating Richard Nixon's sending out the nuclear bombers every time a Soviet General sneezed did more to maintain peace and stability than Biden's James Earl Carter policies. But I guess mean tweets is more harmful to you than causing instability across the globe. The world respects a strongman and holds a weak one in contempt.
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@iamaloafofbread8926 And Biden is the hang-over with the ugly bedmate surprise in the morning. If you think 2016 was the American people throwing a temper tantrum, you have yet to see what will happen in 2024. "I fear our efforts are for naught, for we have awakened the sleeping giant, AND FILLED HIM WTIH A TERRIBLE RESOLVE," -Admiral Yamamoto after Pearl Harbor.
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@terrestrialextra4790 Indeed. He came in there like a bull in a China shop, and then promptly acted like one (seriously, this has been tested, they act timid). But you are correct that most of the career politicians are basically copies of each other regardless of party. Which is why the American people will NOT be so kind next go around.
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@parthparekh9924 Yes, the "American Century" is basically a continuation of the Royal United Kingdom's prior Century. The US does indeed owe much to the Crown for without them, there would be no United States. Oh, and before you whine about Columbus, he was following the legends that the Vikings told of Vinland. And the Vikings were themselves preceded by the Irish with Saint Bartholomew. And before you bloviate about the "Natives" who crossed Beringia to the New World, there is discussion that Clovis people who preceded them by as much as 1,000 years may have followed the ice shelf along a similar route as the Vikings.
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@parthparekh9924 Where did I say it did? That is the problem with America haters like you. You are so blinded by your zealotry that you jump to foregone conclusions and engage in broad generalities without actually looking at the merits in their proper context.
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Sure, because in the absences of guns, knife stabbings simply replace it at a rate of 4-5 times. Just take a look at Londonstan.
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Indeed. They have become sycophantic lickspittles to the globalist elites.
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@kimandre336 You think Americans really elected Joe Bite-me? When precincts report turnouts at 120% of voter registration, that is glaringly obvious what happened. Trust the American people, not our "rulers". Our rulers lie to us as much as they lie to you.
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@_Mohit_Joshi You seem to conflate Washington DC with the rest of the country. Middle America cannot engage in international relations because the US constitution forbids it; all actions MUST go through the state department. I agree that Pakistan is trash and Washington's continued support of them shows how completely out of touch with reality they are. They really are the ivory tower hacks who hold the "unwashed masses" in contempt. As far as "human rights" Europe loves to lecture the US just as much as they claim we lecture them. Perhaps more so. The truth is, it has only been during the last 80 or so years that Europe even acknowledged them, while the Bill of Rights has been there since 1787.
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@brandonhernandez116 Sure, keep lying to yourself, you are convincing nobody. People know how feckless Joe Bite-Me really is.
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