Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1. And your wages?
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  2. Capitalism has a cycle of overproduction followed by slump, boom followed by bust. Recessions and depressions interspersed with high levels of employment and productivity. Some way of breaking out of the cycle must be invented.
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  3.  @puffnstuff12  So Russia won't allow the USA to base nuclear missiles in Ukraine 5 minutes flight time to Moscow... but it will allow the USA to base nuclear missiles with 3 minutes flight time to Moscow in Finland. Is this the USA's answer to Russia developing hypersonic missiles that it cannot counter? Perhaps Russia should put some of those hypersonic missiles in Cuba and Mexico, 1 minute flight time from Washington DC.
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  4. Taiwan (Republic of China) already belongs to the People's Republic China the way that Hawaii belongs to the USA or the northern part of Ireland belongs to England, or French Polynesia belongs to France and US Micronesia belongs to the USA. What the people there want is entirely irrelevant.
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  5. That's what the USA wants. It wants nationalism because nationalism is right wing. Nationalism supports authoritarianism. Nationalism is divisive. All the things that the USA wants.
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  6. I hope India and China are paying close attention to how the USA treats their neighbour Pakistan.
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  7. I believe there were 3 pipelines in total and two of them were sabotaged, though I don't know if irreparably. That leaves 1 pipeline remaining, although I think it's off-line. If I'm correct it looks as if the USA (or whoever did it) are holding out the tantalising possibility that gas to Europe can be turned on again at a moments notice, albeit not in as large a quantity as before. I wonder why. Was the sabotage of the third pipeline not possible, not desirable, or not necessary?
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  8. The division of Europe for another fifty years.
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  9.  @roymarshall_  So why don't we. We don't need billionaires.
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  10.  @pauloemmi6216  The USA's actions in Ukraine have achieved their purpose: stop cheap Russian gas; create dependency on the USA's own gas; create instability in Europe; create a pretext for the continuation of NATO and the erosion of civil liberties; and whatever else the corporate‐military institutions have in store for us.
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  11. It's a threat to its military‐industrial complex. The USA needs its vast complex of bases and the economic activity they generate for its continued prosperity. To wit, the USA is a war economy the cannot survive peace. The USA military-security complex is the only thing that's keeping the USA from being completely deindustrilised. Take a look at what Michael Hudson, an economist, has to say.
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  12.  @jimness5902  And is that potash on Native American lands? Will its extraction cause environmental damage that will negatively impact those Native Americans?
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  13.  @valerieblackthorn13  But the USA and its clients can.... Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Pakistan on and so forth. Attacking countries on the other side of the world that pose no threat to the USA is okay but if a country threatened by a hostile military alliance takes action to defend its borders – that's "trying to do everything".
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  14. If that's the case, at least they are no longer being fired at civilians.
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  15. You mean all the collaborators and traitors.
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  16. As I've said before: who cares about the middle class! What is this obsession with them?
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  17. All I heard was the United States of America wants a (proxy) war with China.
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  18. I'm sure Asians can protect their waters from pirates without the help of the USA.
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  19. Do you honestly expect others to render themselves vulnerable for a country that is mere months away from defeat?
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  20. Isn't it a bit moot if the tank turret is blown off? I mean it's not as if the tank, any tank, will be much good after a direct hit from a modern anti-tank weapon.
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  21. Perhaps world war two could serve as an example. The USA's military production totally outpaced that of the Germans and the Japanese.
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  22. To prop up the real estate market, banks and hedge funds; engage in tax evasion; launder money, and make sure the money is not used to fund any organisation or government that threatens US hegemony. To wit, to further western interests.
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  23. The titular presidents of the USA are not really in charge. Foreign policy stays basically the same whoever sits in the White House. It would be naive to believe differently.
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  24. Just call it what it is: A DEPRESSION And like the first, let's put the blame where it truly belongs: BANKERS Oh, and let's not pretend it's accidental or a law of nature: IT ISNT
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  25.  @Mamahuevo173  free to live under globalist corporate totalitarianism.
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  26.  @marcelobravo3074  Also dependent on the Western lending institutions.
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  27.  @ImBigFloppa  Are you saying the Russians don't have an anti-tank weapon system that can destroy an American tank, or that their own tanks lack the ability in one-on-one with the Abrams to destroy it?
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  28.  @Hathur  The Germans said the same in 1941.
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  29.  @Olivia-bl8ez  So have the costs of living.
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  30.  @WolfHeathen  ever heard of tax evasion?
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  31.  @eternalobi  And what stage is next?
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  32.  @Arya_amsha  Neither does greed.
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  33.  @patriotamerican3069  But they do deserve to be treated like human beings; free men and not slaves. And for that you need a minimum wage that is above subsistence and then some.
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  34. It already has. Hint: GDP/GNP P.P.P. (Purchasing Power Parity). Soon also in P.C. (Per Capita, or nominal) terms. As it can't compete in GDP terms maybe the West might move the goalposts and start measuring success in terms of the Gini coefficient or the Human Development Index (HDI).
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  35. @Chase Merritt We have polygamy already. It's called cheating (adultery) and it's perfectly legal. That and serial monogamy.
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  36.  @farzana6676  In competition with China it's a race to the bottom. You can't win.
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  37. When the greater part of your industrial base is geared toward military production rather than manufacturing for civilian needs then you have very little choice in the matter. On their own, tourism, services, banking, the stock market and real estate aren't enough to keep the USA's three hundred million people in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed. The USA needs to wean itself off the military‐industrial complex, otherwise it's going to be unable to compete effectively against China.
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  38.  @donm3844  thank you for your service, wage slave. If only all, rather the just most, people had your attitude there would be no need for labour unions or worker protections. That get-up-and-go, pull yourself up by your bootstraps attitude is what we capitalists like. Don't blame your slavers masters for being a wage slave, blame yourself for not working hard enough or not making enough sacrifices.
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  39.  @AUniqueHandleName444  "Markets take care of what the law can't." No they don't. That's a lie.
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  40.  @Senovitj  yes, why?
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  41.  @puffnstuff12  But it might! Indeed, if precedent is to go by it will.
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  42.  @ralphcantrell3214  And how many worthless dollars will you print in your efforts to out‐compete China and Russia? And how much inflation will it cause? And how much of your budget are you going to spend on war to the detriment of social welfare? Or you going to get rid of social welfare altogether to pay for your latest trillion dollar star wars death star? And what Chinese and Russian resources are you willing to forego? And when India and other countries like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela join them and China and Russia extend security guarantees under the UN charter (you know, that bit of the UN charter that protects the sovereignty of nations threatened by US invasion), what then?
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  43.  @ralphcantrell3214  You mean the terrorists paid for, armed, trained and given their marching orders by the Pentagon? The terrorists who all came from Saudi Arabia and the airports where they the supposedly trained with their lax security controlled by firms linked to Israeli intelligence, with companies also linked to Israel doing 'repairs' to the towers several weeks before 9/11? Oh, and both Pakistan and Afghanistan were US puppets doing America's bidding with Pakistan serving as the USA's main base for Islamic fundamentalism in the area? Plus the fact that before or since no steel framed high rise skyscraper has ever collapsed at free‐fall or near free‐fall speed into its own footprint due to office fires weakening its structure.
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  44. Would you like to fight your brother?
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