Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Alexander Mercouris" channel.

  1. The apparent underestimation of the Chinese by the Americans smacks of some kind of superiority complex borne of cultural chauvinism that finds itself incapable of treating them as intellectual equals capable of great feats of technological development and this is strange given even a cursory glance at Chinese history as a leader in technological advances. Just because they fell behind in the development of guns – a technology that they themselves invented – doesn't mean they can't develop them now. The idea that the Chinese, and Asians more generally, can't be leaders in technology or other fields and thus can only develop by copying the West is absurd.
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  2. Europe is part of Asia, a subcontinent in fact, so when it collaborates with Asia it is to everyone's benefit.
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  3. The way things are going it would seem that Anglo-American neo‐liberal capitalism is a failed experiment.
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  4. A peace treaty would probably involve the Syrians asking Israel to give them back the Golan Heights and Israel very probably would not agree to that as they see it as a territory of great strategic value and vital to the security of Israel.
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  5. NATO was always about the USA and not about Europe. Like the European Union, it was pushed on Europeans by the USA as a means of controlling the continent and dominating it politically through proxies, playing one European country against another. Like in all empires, underlings aren't allowed to be militarily superior, or even equal, to the hegemon that exercises suzereinty over them.
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  6. If Taiwan plays its cards right its GDP will rise in tandem with China's.
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  7. ​ @jamesflames6987  I would like to see the United States try breaking out of jail US military personnel captured by Russia and held in a Russian prison while being tried under the Rome statute on behalf of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, the Dutch being unable to do so themselves.
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  8. The United States has allowed itself to become over‐reliant on force at the expense of long term investment in diplomacy and mutually beneficial trade. Unlike China it refuses to use strategic investments in ways that are not perceived by the recipient country as being unfairly exploitative or of being neo‐colonialist in character, such as by making demands which impinge on issues of political and economic sovereignty.
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  9. The Taiwanese know that the USA cannot help them given the current technological developments in Chinese military capability. Near its coast China would win in any naval engagement with the US navy.
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  10. The crisis in Sri Lanka may have been engineered deliberately at least in part by the USA. They may want to create the conditions in which an anti‐Chinese faction come to power who oppose the Belt and Road or otherwise create tensions between India and Sri Lanka.
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  11. It did in the first cold war. Not saying it can do it a second time but you never know how the Great Game ends until its over.
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  12. Not just these countries but the whole world. A new paradigm is needed that encompasses the political, economic, social and cultural. One that everyone can buy in to because it promises a world better than this one, a world that is more egalitarian and philanthropic.
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  13. It's run out of options. The USA likewise. They have both come to an impasse. Now its action or inaction and how long the latter can be pursued is anybody's guess.
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  14.  @Larkinchance  Factoids is what the media peddle nowadays.
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  15. Japanese politics never changes. The system is specifically designed to preventing that.
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  16. They don't, but the military‐industrial complex does.
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  17. Who is Gonzalo Lira?
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  18. No use complaining, You Tube is a corporation and part of the military‐industrial complex of the USA that operates according to facist-corporatist neo-liberal principles and ideology.
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  19. Israel is basically an extension of the USA the same way that Canada is (and possibly Japan, Britain).
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  20.  @thucduyen9592  It irks me no end that the same people who deride political tyranny are the same people who are fully supportive of economic tyranny, which is exactly what capitalism is and amounts to the same thing in the end. Under capitalism only the propertied class have any real say in the way things are done any everyone else is just a prole, the modern equivalent of a middle ages peasant.
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  21. If neither side (Kiev, Donetsk/Lugansk) defeats the other, either because they can't or aren't allowed by their respective supporters (the USA in the case of Ukraine, Russia in the case of Donetsk and Lugansk), how will this pan out? How long can this stalemate be maintained before the government in Kiev capitulates and begins to implement in good faith the Minsk Accords? Is it simply a matter of convincing the USA that it is pointless to continue or will the government in Kiev have to be overthrown in an internal coup?
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  22. I wonder who can that be.
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  23.  @richardscathouse  The ruling class of America secretly want immigration, both legal and illegal, to keep wages low, reduce labour shortages and stave off demographic collapse.
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  24. Only if the United States insists on making them so. Disband NATO and remove US troops from Europe and they will be no need for buffer states on Russia's borders (unless Germany or France become warlike).
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  25. The Congress of the USA is as the Senate was in ancient Rome just before the demise of the Republic: an aristocratic body officially in charge but with real power residing elsewhere. Which illustrious 5‐star general‐turned‐politician will be America's Ceasar? Time only knows.
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  26. The Sudetenland was an integral part of Germany, so Germany was basically taking back or reuniting the country, like happened in 1989 with East German and West German reunification. And the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia) (and Poland) had ethnic German minorities. Taiwan was historically part of China and both countries make clear that they are Chinese, with the Taiwanese claiming they have a right to rule China and China claiming they have have a right to rule Taiwan. To the Chinese, Taiwan is a renegade province in need of liberation and that China will not be whole until it is united with the mainland. The USA and much of the rest of the world also acknowledge, either explicitly or implicitly, that the Republic of Taiwan is not an independent country de jure but that the People's Republic of China is. They do not officially recognise Taiwan.
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  27. Cooperation tends to be better than conflict in the long run.
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  28. It was a planned withdrawal. The idea that the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was precipitous and unplanned is what the US wants everyone to believe. Don't fall for it.
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  29. The danger is that policy makers will begin to believe their own propaganda, with negative long-term consequences.
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  30. Wait until China takes over from the USA in GDP per capita. Then we'll be seeing a downgrading of GDP as a measure of one‐upmanship. Some other metric will be used, one that just happens to show the USA in a good light.
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  31. What is referred to as 'The West' is in fact not as monolithic an entity as it's so often made out to be. Instead it is a diverse and dynamic grouping of individual countries with often conflicting interests that may appear to have solidarity on the face of things but in reality is often deeply divided. We must not mistake the Europe that is under the hegemony of the USA for the Europe that can say "no" when it really matters.
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  32. Britain did its best to stop Eurasian integration (France, Germany, Russia, Turkey) and 4 wars — Napolionic, Crimean, Great War/WorldWar 1, World War 2 — in which millions died was the result. The USA seems to want to do the same.
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  33. I wish.
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  34. But Russia doesn't need containing because it's already within its recognised borders.
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  35.  @uus292  The whole of the Soviet Union was suffering food shortages and famine and not just Ukraine. Other areas of Europe were also suffering from the effects of war and various revolutions, civil wars and other kinds of civil disturbance that occurred in the wake of world war one. Indeed, while the famine in Ukraine wasn't deliberate (that has been debunked if you care to look) famine or near famine in defeated Germany under a British blockade was.
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  36. "Illegality" is the best way of describing it. The criminality and corruption that exists in the USA is now being exported to Europe.
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  37. Understandable when you consider a fair proportion of the elite are eugenicists fully committed to reducing the human population of planet Earth. Nuclear bunkers are for them, the chosen few, not the rest of us. As far as they are concerned we can go to hell.
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  38. That would make for a better security environment for Europe, I believe. The Russians would not feel as threatened and as a result the rest of Europe would not feel the need to spend as much of their budgets on arms spending, freeing them to spend on socially useful things instead.
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  39. "Western elites" are constrained by their subservience to Washington. Their hands are tied.
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  40. RIP Miss Dugin. Condolences Mr Dugin.
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  41. I think Alexander is referring to Asia and Europe en bloc when he uses the word 'Eurasia', the implication being that they are basically one continent with the two parts remaining geographically distinct but with the major countries in the region still sharing similar and sometimes overlapping geopolitical interests, peace and prosperity being chief among them. I don't think he's trying to erase Russia at all. Russia straddles both continents and can therefore, under certain circumstances, be referred to legitimately as Eurasian. This is not meant as an insult to Russians, merely a statement of geographical fact.
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  42. The US political economy is dysfunctional and everyone suffers as a result.
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  43. By being seen to be doing something bold and decisive the Russian government has won a great moral victory in the eyes of its own people, so far without a shot being fired. And that is what is important.
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  44. Is this because you've been injected with a gain-of-function 'vaccine' developed at least in part by the United States military that actually may make you MORE likely to develop cold/flu, including variants of COVID? Of course, you could be particularly prone to catching the cold as you frequently seem to be suffering from its symptoms in your videos.
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  45. Well said. Thanks to pressure from the USA both the European Union and Great Britain are cutting off their nose to spite their face. The actions of the USA are very likely to exacerbate an already worsening economic situation.
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  46.  @willengel2458  They pulled a Yeltsin.
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  47. Soon the government of the USA might run out of things to sanction and if that happens it will have to re‐learn the art of negotiation. Sanctions can only take you so far.
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  48. That's probably what the evil empire wants. It wants Europe to be as separate from Russia and Asia as possible and basically sanction and embargo them like it did during the cold war. All for the benefit of the United States, of course. It wants Europe and Asia to remain as disconnected as possible. A united and economically developed Eurasia would be a nightmare and a united Afro‐Eurasia even worse.
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  49.  @James-Campbell  Low intensity conflict is the term they give it. The USA and Britain want to draw out this whole sorry saga for as long as possible. Resources being wasted on war are resources not being used for development and are a drain on the economy, something that the British and Americans would find useful.
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  50. I would have thought the USA would have had enough foresight to understand that doing business with India would not stop India in turn continuing to do business with China and Russia. They should have realised that selling technology to India would not stop other countries from doing the same.
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