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

@JsJvd I’m sure the same thing was said about the Japanese, Chinese, Koreans and Vietnamese… until they kicked western arse.
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The Taliban should really be called the Afghan resistance movement and now the government of Afghanistan. I for one would appreciated it if people would just use the word Afghanistan rather than the Taliban when referring to the country and the actions of its government. Not to do so is like referring to the Vietnamese government as the Vietcong every time you refer to their actions rather than referring to them as the actions of Vietnam (the country, its government and its people).
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Shawn Gunnison: all good and well, but it's what international law as agreed on by the international community as represented by the United Nations post world war 2 that matters here. De facto the Golan Heights are under Israeli occupation (as in military occupation having been seized in war) but de jure the international community considers them as still belonging to Syria regardless. That is the long and the short of it and is not up for dispute. One of the reasons for the failure of the League of Nations was because it could not enforce the law and as a result we had the lawlessness of Germany, Italy and Japan. Without law there is lawlessness and when a group of countries start tearing up the rule book then it spoils it for everyone; the world degenerates into a jungle of 'might makes right'. Israel could easily negotiate peace with all its neighbours if it wanted, but neither it, nor more tellingly, its protector the USA, want this. They find the current political instability in the Middle East serves their purposes much better.
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Three generations. From the 1840's to the 1960's. From then on nothing but decline, slow at first but speeding up as time went by. The country is now living on borrowed time as the rentier form of bankster capitalism known as neoliberalism is unsustainable long term, especially when faced with the dynamic growth of Asia and the economic colossus that is China.
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@MrThhg more mass murder (a war crime) of innocent civilians by the USA and its client states in the first week of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than Russia in 30 years. And that's just in the first week! And now we have the famines in Yemen and Afghanistan, DELIBERATELY being caused by the actions of the United States government. When the USA and its lackeys in western Europe point the finger at others, 6½ billion fingers are pointing back.
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Or, how can it conduct an independent foreign policy not subordinated to US interests.
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@Nous98 The Chinese are playing the West at their own game and seem to have become quite successful at it. Indeed, they may even be winning. The Japanese set the precedent but were made to pay the price for competing successfully with the West by being goaded into war by the Americans. Let's hope that this time around the West will be too weak and divided to prevent the rise of Asia.
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India has traditionally pursued a foreign policy of non-alignment in international relations and maintained a strict neutrality in disputes between others. It wants to maintain good relations with all of its neighbours and therefore I don't see this changing much in the foreseeable future. It is a policy that has worked for India.
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Populations are, or soon will be, in decline worldwide with most European countries and certain countries in Asia having below-replacement levels of fertility. Consumption-driven economies that are also resource-wasteful remain a big problem, as is the prevailing idea of infinite economic growth in a system that relies on debt creation.
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@mwtrolle Is that why the USA has Guantanamo and only God knows how many similar places around the world. And routinely kills civilians and engages in reprisals against civilians like it did at Falluhja, engaging in indiscriminate killing to terrorise the civilian population into not supporting partisans (terrorists, insurgents) in defiance of Geneva and Hague conventions.
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 @stevenfallinge7149 Because they were collaborators and traitors, as was the puppet government.
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@hungrymusicwolf Capitalism is the best form of government... as is teeters on the edge of another Great Depression, not to mention all of the other, countless cyclical recessions that went before. And democracy did not bring about capitalism either because capitalism is by its nature undemocratic, as you are now seeing with the plutocratic oligarchy driving the USA and its minions into bankruptcy and war after war. Democracy was in fact an attempt to rein in the excesses and tyranny of capitalist oligarchy. Social and technological advances also occurred in spite of these things you call capitalism and democracy and when they did occur because of capitalism it was as a result of the system's need for war to further its expansion.
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@408Magenta Agree with what you say, but as to the question why it is quite easy to answer. Thailand has a monarchy and aristocracy that are naturally deeply conservative, reactionary and thus stand against everything that communism, socialism and, indeed, any revolutionary or radical movement stands for. Monarchy and communism are natural enemies, as are religion and communism (militantly atheist).
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@dotamaze So? That is not a morally sound argument for colonialism.
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 @tBar9223 Why did he do that? Was there a fiscal crisis or something?
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Mark Raymond, I think that achievement goes to the CIA of the USA.
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@blakebrown534 It does with the Jews of Israel.
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