Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Desperate US/EU To Seize Rus Assets, Send Ukr Refugees Fight; Tighten Oil Cap, Sanction Diamonds" video.

The "International Rules Based Order" has always been a phantasmagora. It has never been defined. You cannot buy a copy of the Rules, because they have never been defined. They seem, to me, to be a bit like the "thoughts" (Die Gedanken) in the medieval students' song "Die Gedanken sind frei", in that they seem to me to fit the description of thoughts in the song : "Die Gedanken sin frei, wer kann sie erraten? Sie fliegen dabei, wie nachliche Schatten" (Thoughs are free, who can guess them? They fly around, like shadows in the night.") That seems to me to be a pretty fair summary of the Rules in the International Rules-Based Order. Who can guess them? Good question! They fly around? Well yes, one moment they apply to the Chinese and the next they don't fit the Israelis!
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One of the many ironies in the present situation is, I suspect, that the huge US arms manufacturers have since the end of WW2, been buying up and closing down European and other competitors, meaning that the CW, is much shorter than ever before, of firms that could make up these deficiencies, rapidly. I also suspect, as I said at the start of the sanctions campaign, that ammonia is an important raw material, for making explosives, as well as being needed for other things such as fertilizer, and about 40% of the CW's ammonia, came from Russia and Belarus. The other point is, that explosives contain a large amount of energy and this energy has to come from somewhere. So, cutting oneself off from a source of cheap energy, is not a very sensible thing to do if you want to make a lot of explosives.
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Insurance is a profitable business. Forcing shipper carrying Russian oil to insure outside the CW is just "Lifting a Rock, only to drop it on your own toes." as the Chinese say, or "shooting yourself in the foot" as the Anglophone have it. Actually, I think the Chinese is more apt as the Anglphone expression dates back to WW1, where it was a means of getting out of the front line. The Chinese expression is descriptive of a failure to think ahead.
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The lack of weapons-making capacity made perfect sense, so long as the West did not instigate a conflict. Russia, China and Iran had no intention of starting a conflict. The lack of Weapons-making capacity (WMC) was covered up to disguise the fact that the chief product of the Arms industry was profits for the shareholders and officers of the Big Arms Companies such as Lockheed-Martin and Raytheon + a number of extremely expensive products for show and export. As to "a staggering dereliction of duty and incompetance." you have to realise that as capitalist enterprises, WMCs are primarily responsible to their shareholders, not to the customers and not to the environment or the country. This is one good reason, why all such enterprises should be nationalized or at least be under very close governmt supervision. They should not have private shareholders. One has only to look at he situation in the USA, where you have the arms industry paying lobbyists, to pay congress-critters, to vote funds for the arms industry, who pay lobbyists and shareholders and the lobbyists, etc., etc. round and round, I'm sure you get the circular nature of this relationship, the whole set-up being financed by the taxpayers, while most of the money disappears into the pockets of the shareholders. Some might call it a "Merry-go-round" though I doubt many taxpayers would.
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42:49 Another irony is that at the same time as violating all these principles of human rights law and commercial law, the CW continues as ever to accuse Russia, China and Iran of "Violating human rights" in their own countries and of stealing intellectual property.
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@paulmentzer7658 Problems! Problems and still more problems! It almost seems as though whoever thought up this war, thought "We don't need to plan this in detail! We can just muddle through!" Or perhaps they really did think , as I have seen suggested; that when the Russians were confronted by the Ukrainian army, they would throw down their arms and run away. If they did spend time beforehand working out what they were going to do, and how the Russians would react, they got it fabulously wrong!
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@paulmentzer7658 That speaks of either an extraordinary hubris or a severe lack of planning. LOL.
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@paulmentzer7658 Obviously you have expert knowledge that I lack, so I do not doubt that what you say is true. However, shells make a big explosion when they land, so presumably they have some other explosive in them. Since this explosive contains a lot of energy, it must need a lot of energy to make it. So cutting off a cheap source of energy does not look like a helpful action. " Which make it a lack of planning more then anything else." As you say.
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@JosephBisio " What about that little Russian invasion of 2/24/22 ?? " That Invasion was provoked by the US whose proxy, the Ukrainian army, after spending seven and a bit years attacking the Russian-speaking Eastern provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk and killing thousands of them, threatened to wage an all out war on them and either etnicly cleanse the two provinces or masscre the inhabitants of them. The invasion was a pre-emptive strike to prevent this happenning. " What about Chinese threats vs, Taiwan," Taiwan is a province of China, as even the USG admits. The Chinese "threat" to invade its own province (?) is that if the province declares itself an independent country the Chinese government will invade to put it back under central government control, (Which, I should think, is what any government would do in their place!) but the Beijing government has always stated that they would much rather negotiate a peaceful union with two seperate systems in the mainland and Taiwan. " What about Chinese threats vs, Philippines, and Vietnam." Well what about them ? the relations between China and Vietnam are pretty good on the whole, true they have border disputes so do many other states in the region. The Chinese are not threatening to invade Vietnam. As to the Philipines there too the situation is similar. Until the Communists triuphed in China the US stated clearly that the islands and reefes that are disputed were Chinese. The Philipines have a new government which wants to please the US so they are upping the dispute over some islands. Thats about par for the course. Please detail Iran's threat against Israel. How do they compare to Israels genocidal actions and threats in Gaza?
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