Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Bloomberg Television" channel.

  1. Happy Gilmour...
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  2. @yok Bolsheviks' revolution started in Russia and Bolsheviks inherited Russian Empire's imperialist foreign policies. The economic system can change, but the Grand Duchy of Moscow's power nexus remained the same.
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  3.  @MrVovF22  When Putin argued for the 1997 NATO rollback, Putin is arguing for Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact's European division framework. Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact's European division is NOT new since a similar framework exist when the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth was dismantled by the Russian Empire, the German Kingdom of Prussia, and the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy. Along with Germany, Russia is part of the WW2 fire starter problem. "There's nothing new under the sun". Your primitive buffer state argument is useless with nuclear-armed hypersonic missiles. You can't the truth when Russian dominated USSR continued Russian Empire's imperialist foreign policy.
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  4.  @MrVovF22  The Baltic Way or Baltic Chain was a peaceful political demonstration on 23 August 1989. An estimated 2 million people joined hands to form a human chain extending 600 kilometres (370 mi) across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been forcibly reincorporated into the Soviet Union in 1944. The colossal demonstration marked the 50th anniversary of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact that divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence and led to the occupation of the Baltic states in 1940. You can't the truth when Russian dominated USSR continued Russian Empire's imperialist foreign policy.
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  5.  @jagd8085  Australian Governor-General rubber stamps legislative bills. Fact: No Australian Governor-General has blocked legislative bills from the House of Representatives and Senate. Australia Act 1986 has removed all UK legislative powers from Australia. The Australia Act (Australia and UK) eliminated the remaining possibilities for the United Kingdom to legislate with effect in Australia, for the UK to be involved in the Australian government, and for an appeal from any Australian court to a British court. Australian legislative bills originate from the Australian House of Representatives. British legislative bills originate from the British House of Commons. The Sovereign NO longer has a political or executive role.
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  6.  @petitben5240  Reminder, NATO is not a country. NO NATO member country has land-grabbed "Bosnia and Herzegovina" and you can't say the same for Russia's land-grabbed five oblasts from Ukraine.
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  7.  @petitben5240  >United States of America invaded and destroyed Iraq Iraq's territorial integrity was kept intact despite Saddam's Iraq has invaded Kuwait and Iran. You can't say the same for Russia's land-grabbed five oblasts from Ukraine. Iraq's territorial integrity was kept intact despite Iraqi Kurds wanting their own Kurdistan i.e. Hint: Turkey's anti-Kurdistan interest influenced both post-WW1 and post-Gulf wars. >good old NATO bombed and made a terrorist heaven of Libyan NATO command structure wasn't used until United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 since NATO usage was vetoed by Turkey. 🤣😂🤣😅 Turkey's veto against NATO command usage proves NATO is just a talking shop. On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council. Libya (with Soviet military hardware that includes main battle tanks and superionic fighter jets) invaded Chad (with Toyota pickup trucks and man-portable anti-tank / anti-air missiles from France and US). Muammar Gaddafi played stupid games and win stupid prizes. Libya's territorial integrity was kept intact. You can't say the same for Russia's land-grabbed five oblasts from Ukraine.
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  8.  @MrVovF22  Putin is the best salesman for NATO.
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  9. ​ @jagd8085  Fact: The UK lost its British Empire. The British government does NOT govern British Empire's breakaways. UK's Sterling zone is gone and Imperial preference (custom union) is gone i.e. these are the price for the USA supporting UK's WW2 adventure. Nothing is free. This is like Russian Empire being reduced to the core Moscow oblast and a few surrounding oblasts. British Empire doesn't exist and there is no successor federation state. Biden's US rejected UK's USMCA membership attempt. The UK has to accept CPTPP conditions (economically dominated by Japan, Australia, and Canada). How the mighty have fallen. Blame Trump for the US exit from TPP and effectively created a preferential trade block for Japan and mostly Commonwealth members. Under the CPTPP trade zone, the UK will be treated like any other CPTPP member. Fact: Spain lost its Spanish Empire. The Spanish government does NOT govern Spanish Empire's breakaways. Spanish Empire doesn't exist and there is no successor federation state. As shown in the PIIGS situation, another economic power dominates the EU and it's not the US i.e. when Germany tells you to jump, you jump e.g. Greek's PIIGS solution. The PIIGS countries have to follow Germany's economic direction. Swedish Exit (Swexit) from the EU argument is against German dominance e.g. German driven green "even the playing field" policies. Unlike non-existing Western European Empires, the Russian Federation still has most of the Russian Empire's land territories.
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  10.  @jagd8085  When did Australia leave the Commonwealth? Until 1949, Britain and Australia shared a common nationality code. The final constitutional ties between the United Kingdom and Australia ended in 1986 with the passing of the Australia Act 1986. Canada has Canada Act 1982. New Zealand has Constitution Act 1986. Russian-dominated USSR wasn't the only European empire that was dissolved.
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  11.  @petitben5240  9 February 1994: At UN request, NATO agreed to authorise air strikes, declared 20 km total exclusion zone around Sarajevo and required Bosnian Serbs to withdraw heavy weapons from zone or place them under UN control within 10 days; also called on Bosnian Government to place heavy weapons in Sarajevo under UN control. Agreement between 'RS' and Bosnian Government to a ceasefire in Sarajevo, negotiated by Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Rose, then Commander of UN forces in Bosnia. UN Security Council through UNSCR 836 of 4 June 1994 authorizes the use of air power to defend the safe areas created by UN Security Council resolution 824 of 6 May 1993. Paragraph 10 of UNSCR 836 stipulates: "...Member States, acting nationally or through regional organisations or arrangements, may take, under the authority of the Security Council and subject to close coordination with the Secretary-General and UNPROFOR, all necessary measures, through the use of air power, in and around the safe areas in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to support UNPROFOR in the performance of its mandate..." The Russian Federation supported UN Security Council resolution 824.
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  12.  @jagd8085  Russian president's powers include execution of federal law, appointing federal ministers, and members of the judiciary, and negotiating treaties with foreign powers. For Australia, negotiating treaties with foreign powers is done at the Prime Minster and cabinet level. Selecting federal ministers are done by the Prime Minster.
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  13. ​ @jagd8085  The monarchs of Australia are the same as those of the United Kingdom. The sovereigns reigned over Australia as monarchs of the United Kingdom until 1942 (by a legal fiction, from 1939). From that year they reigned as sovereigns in right of Australia, though the first to be accorded an Australian title, Queen of Australia, was Elizabeth II, in 1953. After the Queen's death in 2022, her son Charles III took over. Australia's monarchy position is separated from United Kingdom due to the "Queen of Australia" position. Australia's monarchy does NOT dictate Australian foreign policy e.g. UK has to negotiate a new free trade agreement (FTA) with Australia like any other country in the world. Canada's monarchy does NOT dictate Canadian foreign policy e.g. UK has to negotiate a new free trade agreement (FTA) with Canada like any other country in the world. UK is joining the CPTPP trade zone with Japan taking the leading role in place of the US due to Trump's US Exit from TPP. The UK can't reestablish dominance due to combined Australia + Canada having comparable GDP and population size when compared to the UK.
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  14. The lesson: Do not disarm nuclear weapons programs for useless security assurance. Countries with "security assurance" with the US or Russia need to review their defense arrangements and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty membership. Budapest Memorandum is useless as the "peace for our time" Munich Agreement.
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  15.  @YuriiTemnikov  BEFORE Euromaidan, Russia started a trade war against Ukraine, forcing Yanukovych to sign a base rental extension agreement that breached Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 disallows foreign military bases after 2017. You missed the small detail in Ukraine's Constitution 1996, Article 17 which disallows foreign military bases after 2017. Your "USA coup in 2014" narrative is false.
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  16.  @Whataboutism-o8j  The economic system can change, but the Grand Duchy of Moscow's power nexus remained the same.
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  17.  @bulldog6545  FALSE. The US offered Zelensky a ride out of Ukraine. US/UK support for Ukraine is due to Budapest Memorandum's "security assurance".
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  18.  @АлександрМолния-т2щ The war between Ukraine vs Russia is an echo of the past Kyiv vs Grand Duchy of Moscow Slavic wars. 1. 1863–1864 January uprising, Russian Empire crushed Polish, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian insurgents uprising. 2. Soviet–Ukrainian War occurred between 1917 to 1921, a war between the Ukrainian People's Republic vs the Bolsheviks i.e. the Ukrainian Soviet Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (modern-day Russian Federation). Bolsheviks' revolution started in Russia and Bolsheviks inherited Russian Empire's imperialist foreign policies. The economic system can change, but the Grand Duchy of Moscow's power nexus remained the same. These are "old world" issues.
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  19.  @oceanwave4502  Atm, the US/UK is upholding Budapest Memorandum's "security assurance" with Ukraine. US exit from the Budapest Memorandum and the collapse of "security assurance" will impact Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons system. Australia's AUKUS's access to highly enriched fissile material indicates that the Australians are predicting the collapse of "rules-based order" and the world is reverting back to land grabbing imperialist power game. AUKUS's access to highly enriched fissile material is the halfway house between working rules-based order and the collapse of rules-based order. It's a strange situation when Canada's Liberal government has recently decided to support the CANZUK initiative.
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  20.  @john_cockpit  "Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany" is for Germany. There are NO NATO bases in East Germany. "Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany" is the final treaty document, not the work-in-progress notes.
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  21.  @АлександрМолния-т2щ  Article 69 of the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR stated: "The Ukrainian SSR retains the right to willfully secede from the USSR." The Ukrainian SSR retained 'the right of free secession from the USSR' (Article 69). Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR) has seceded from USSR.
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  22.  @jagd8085  Fact: Australian Governor-General doesn't have Putin's governance power.
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  23. BioNTech gave it's mRNA tech to China.
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  24.  @ЮлияШелковникова-м9е  The war between Ukraine vs Russia is an echo of the past Kyiv vs Grand Duchy of Moscow Slavic wars. 1. 1863–1864 January uprising, Russian Empire crushed Polish, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian insurgents uprising. 2. Soviet–Ukrainian War occurred between 1917 to 1921, a war between the Ukrainian People's Republic vs the Bolsheviks i.e. the Ukrainian Soviet Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (modern-day Russian Federation). Bolsheviks' revolution started in Russia and Bolsheviks inherited Russian Empire's imperialist foreign policies. The economic system can change, but the Grand Duchy of Moscow's power nexus remained the same. These are "old world" issues. Before Euromaidan, Russia started a trade war against Ukraine, forcing Yanukovych to sign a base rental extension agreement that breached Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 disallows foreign military bases after 2017. Read the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 which disallows foreign military bases after 2017. CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996 Article 17 The location of foreign military bases shall not be permitted on the territory of Ukraine. Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17. After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO. If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea. Putin's narrative is FALSE. Putin's pressure caused Yanukovych to make a mistake. The US is the wildcard in the "old world" Slavic wars.
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  25.  @ЮлияШелковникова-м9е  You can't handle the truth.
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  26.  @ЮлияШелковникова-м9е  >Too many dates starting with pagan years Look in the mirror.
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  27.  @Haukka790  1. During the 2014 G20 meeting, Australia enlist a US nuclear submarine to track the small Russian naval flotilla. Year context: 2014. 2. Russia and China blocked Australia's and New Zealand's marine park proposals in Antarctica. It is the eighth year the proposal has been knocked back, with China and Russia voting the proposal down on previous occasions. This caused Australia to enlist help from the EU while New Zealand enlist help from the US. Year context: 2019.
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  28.  @ЮлияШелковникова-м9е  >The Wagner private army is doing good against extensively financed NATO representatives NATO is not a country.
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  29. Lower USD benefits US exports, hence keeping USD higher is in China's own interest.
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  30.  @YuriiTemnikov  Read the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 which disallows foreign military bases after 2017. CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996 Article 17 The location of foreign military bases shall not be permitted on the territory of Ukraine. Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17. After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO. If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea. Your "West organized an illegal coup d'état on ukraine" narrative is FALSE.
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  31. China has established another Qing.
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  32. South Korea agrees to open auto market in return for exemption from steel tariffs
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  33. The main trigger for the current US riot mess occurred in Democrats governed Minneapolis and pro-Democrat protest efforts have resulted in Burn Loot Matter in leftist Democrat-run cities.
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  34.  @drumpdump1995  >NATO is equally responsible for provoking the situation That's BS. Before Euromaidan, Russia has successfully used political and economic leverage to dissuade Ukraine from signing the E.U. deal. In the months prior to the Vilnius summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a trade war with Kyiv, blocking nearly all imports from Ukraine and cutting energy supplies to the country. In turn, this reduced Ukrainian exports by 25 percent and shrank the economy by 1.5 percent. Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17, disallows foreign military bases after 2017. According to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's constitution forbids the country from hosting foreign military bases after 2017. Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17. After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO. In 2018, President Petro Poroshenko's constitution amendment allowed temporary foreign military bases. If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea.
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  35.  @KP-if5kc  >NATO also said they would not expand toward Russia's borders False. Myth 1: NATO promised Russia it would not expand after the Cold War Fact: Such an agreement was never made. NATO’s door has been open to new members since it was founded in 1949 – and that has never changed. This “Open Door Policy” is enshrined in Article 10 of NATO’s founding treaty, which says “any other European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic” can apply for membership. Decisions on membership are taken by consensus among all Allies. No treaty signed by the United States, Europe and Russia included provisions on NATO membership. The idea of NATO expansion beyond a united Germany was not on the agenda in 1989, particularly as the Warsaw Pact still existed. This was confirmed by Mikhail Gorbachev in an interview in 2014: "The topic of 'NATO expansion' was not discussed at all, and it wasn't brought up in those years. I say this with full responsibility. Not a single Eastern European country raised the issue, not even after the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist in 1991. Western leaders didn't bring it up, either." Declassified White House transcripts also reveal that, in 1997, Bill Clinton consistently refused Boris Yeltsin's offer of a 'gentlemen's agreement' that no former Soviet Republics would enter NATO: "I can't make commitments on behalf of NATO, and I'm not going to be in the position myself of vetoing NATO expansion with respect to any country, much less letting you or anyone else do so…NATO operates by consensus."
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  36.  @KP-if5kc  In 1997, NATO and Russia signed a treaty stating that each country had a sovereign right to seek alliances (1) 1. Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation, and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation signed in Paris, France. The Act has been referred to NATO countries and President Yeltsin for approval. Pre-1997 member states of NATO approved the "Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation, and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation".
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  37. @Tall Walt Johnson That's a false equivalence. Unlike Russia, the US did NOT assimilate Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya into US federal structure. >Afghanistan Osama Bin Laden's group in Afghanistan has executed strikes inside the US. >Libya NATO STOPPED the bloody civil war in Libya. Putin STARTED the bloody war in Ukraine. On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council. "On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya". United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 was adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 17 March 2011 in response to the First Libyan Civil War. The Security Council resolution was proposed by France, Lebanon, and the United Kingdom. Muammar Gaddafi played stupid games and win stupid prizes. >Iraq Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq STARTED the bloody war in Kuwait. Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020 1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL 2nd, India, 23 million tonnes 3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes 4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes 5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend 5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein Date: January 19, 1992 <--- note the year. From AP NEWS NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday. The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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  38.  @ellawilliams7787  When Ukraine or Russia enforces their respective languages, one side will complain about it, hence debunking your "Ukrainians and Russians are one people" argument. Note that Ukraine has enforced Ukrainian and integrated English into its school system. LOL
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  39.  @arty5876  >You don't understand - there was a coup d'etat in Ukraine in 2014 Before Euromaidan, Russia successfully used political and economic leverage to dissuade Ukraine from signing the E.U. deal. In the months prior to the Vilnius summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a trade war with Kyiv, blocking nearly all imports from Ukraine and cutting energy supplies to the country. In turn, this reduced Ukrainian exports by 25 percent and shrank the economy by 1.5 percent. Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17, disallows foreign military bases after 2017. According to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's constitution forbids the country from hosting foreign military bases after 2017. Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17. Yanukovych is not above the law. After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO. In 2018, President Petro Poroshenko's constitution amendment allowed temporary foreign military bases. If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea.
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  40.  @pennyhardaway7491  >Only the complete destruction of extreme n4zism in Ukraine will suffice Russia is part of the Nazi's Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, hence Russia is part of the WW2 fire starter. When Putin argued for the 1997 NATO rollback, Putin is arguing for Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact's European division framework. Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact's European division is NOT new since a similar framework exist when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was dismantled. Look in the mirror.
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  41. @Sol Invictus South Africa? South Africa's GDP is slightly larger than the Philippines. LOL
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  42.  @MrVovF22  I'm aware of Mongol aggression.
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  43.  @Sktarium  You can't handle the truth
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  44.  @Sktarium  Imperialist dog.
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  45.  @petitben5240  That's a flawed argument when Russia currently executing its old-school imperialist land-grabbing action. .
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  46. @Fred Freddy Armed Bolsheviks revolution started in Russia.
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  47.  @lozah9036  Accordingly, Article 69 of the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR stated: "The Ukrainian SSR retains the right to willfully secede from the USSR." The Ukrainian SSR retained 'the right of free secession from the USSR' (art 69). Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR) has seceded from USSR.
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  48.  @lozah9036  That's a false equivalence. Unlike Russia, the US did NOT assimilate Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia into the US federal structure.
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  49.  @lozah9036  The destruction of the World Trade Tower is almost akin to a United States entry into World War I. What were the 3 reasons the US entered ww1? 5 Reasons the United States Entered World War One 1. The Lusitania. In early 1915, Germany introduced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic. 2. The German invasion of Belgium. 3. American loans. ... 4. The reintroduction of unrestricted submarine warfare. 5. The Zimmerman telegram.
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  50.  @lozah9036  On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council. "On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya". United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 was adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 17 March 2011 in response to the First Libyan Civil War. The Security Council resolution was proposed by France, Lebanon, and the United Kingdom. Muammar Gaddafi played stupid games and won stupid prizes. The US supported France(EU)'s and UK(EU)'s, and Lebanon's United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973. NATO wasn't used until United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 since it was vetoed by Turkey.
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