Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "CaspianReport" channel.

  1. Why are you so desperate for views that you keep returning to the Ukraine well to shore up more subs? It's not your strong point because it's getting so much coverage already. All it's done is make CR seem rather outdated compared to the focused war channels. Your last video on Bolivia was the kind of thing you should be doing more of - stories that are less covered, and preferably not recent events. The Ukraine stuff only makes this channel look bad due to all the competition from all corners of the media.
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  2. ​ ger du  Bruh, I talked about this century and you go all the way back to Holodomor lol. This is being called Putin's war, right? Well Putin didn't do Holodomor. It just makes your argument look weak if you need to go back that far. Two can play that game btw. Holodomor killed about 3 million Ukrainians through famine, right? Well the Bengal famine (which is still more recent) killed about the same number of Indians. And that was done by the British under Churchill. And yet Russia is demonized for it, while the Brits and Churchill get to pretend they're the heroic saviors of the world. Don't make me laugh.
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  3.  @arvindjijiantony4882  Nah. He asked for an Indo-Pak comment war. This comment war is between Indians. Well, at least it's different.
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  4.  @kingace6186  Iran was under sanctions 12 years ago as well. The sanctions have nothing to do with it. America has sanctioned Iran for generations and they were still worth more than 600 billion.
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  5.  @Haxerous  I wonder why I rarely see you people jump to these conclusions when it comes to the nationalities of western media reporters and commentators. There's plenty of channels run by Americans for instance, and yet there's far less cries of them being biased towards their nation. How come? Don't give me that 'land of the free' crap to explain why they aren't biased.
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  6. The best option for India is just going through Iran, as it had originally planned. And in doing that, it isn't China that's screwed us over, but the US. America and its never-ending feud with Iran is hurting our interests, even beyond just this project. We don't have any issue with Iran, but because of the US we have to sacrifice them.
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  7. Bruh, you can find literally thousands of articles by traditional media explaining the Israel-Palestine conflict and its history. This idea that traditional media produces nothing good while Youtubers are the only decent source of news is just willful blindness in order to align with an internet meme narrative. Like literally just a Google search will show how wrong it is.
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  8.  @samthesuspect  Lol at this point you're not even responding to anything said, just going on with your 'Rule Britannia' (or the US equivalent 'America, fuck yeah!') spiel. No point engaging with someone who isn't going to respond properly and falls back on weak attempts at character assassination to try undermining his opponent. It's telling when you can't imagine anyone but the Chinese having different views from you you know. Reveals a closed mind.
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  9.  @Duron13  Who's 'everybody' pray? And do you know who has the most interventions since ww2 to its name? It's neither Ru nor Chin (especially not Chin lol, their last one ended in 1979). So you should be asking the same to the us first imo.
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  10. sigh It's disappointing to see what's happened to Caspian off late. I used to watch this channel to learn about geopolitics in surprising places, conflicts and contests that don't get much coverage even if they've been simmering for generations. Nowadays though Caspian keeps singing the same tune - of the grand conflict between east and west - over and over again, in video after video, in order to pander to his audience. So much of it is repetition, and all of it has been covered aplenty in the regular media as well as all over Youtube. He isn't teaching people about the world anymore, he's just feeding them with what they want to hear. Tbf every so often there is a video of something else still (like the recent one on Rwanda), but it's soon followed with yet another video on China and Russia or the US and Europe that he's already done to death but keeps milking for ever more views. I'm not complaining about partisanship or propaganda mind, although others have, but just plain pandering.
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  11. Plan 1 failed cos of the US. Them and their damn never-ending feud with Iran hurts our interests, on this and much else. We don't have an issue with Iran. Ironically, that has worked to China's advantage aka the US' great rival.
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  12. ​ @nighty9338 China literally has been building infrastructure there for decades. And it's infrastructure Africans themselves asked for, not just roads to ports.
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  13.  @PoorPakistanisSurrenderwasFant  If the CCP has wu mao bots, it seems India has its own version by way of bhakt bots...
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  14. The best option for India is just going through Iran, as it had originally planned. And in doing that, it isn't China that's screwed us over, but the US. America and its never-ending feud with Iran is hurting our interests, even beyond just this project. We don't have any issue with Iran, but because of the US we have to sacrifice them.
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  15.  @theobserver3753  "China is imprisoning people" - it still has far fewer people imprisoned than the US, despite having around 4 times the population. Yes, that's including the Uighur camps - that's just how bad the justice system in the US is. 1.6 million for a country of 1.4 billion versus 2.3 million for a country of just 330 million.
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  16.  @HB-qu8dm  Will China throw its weight around the world, if it can? Perhaps, but that's an expensive exercise, and China is hardly looking like it can attain the same level of unilateral hegemony that America has enjoyed for the last 30 years (since the fall of the USSR). So it is forced to operate in a multilateral model, including the US but also other strong nations (including rivals like India), which is good. They're not gonna replace one global hegemon (America) with another (China), rather China's rise is just ending an already existing hegemony.
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  17. Gazprom made the pipeline to Europe, and has made plenty of other pipelines too. Including the existing one to China. And there's plenty of steel to be had too.
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  18. ​ @dh6128  India doesn't want to be an American stooge, like Europe has been for decades. They can even come together with China sometimes in that endeavour, such as with the recent launch of the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank that directly competes with the US and Japanese dominated Asian Development Bank. Plus fundamentally the South China Sea and Taiwan are well beyond India's interests, which extend only to about the Malacca Strait (the real place where they can apply pressure to China). The last thing India wants is to pick a fight where it can't and doesn't even need to. The US has bases all over the world, but notably not in India - that tells you something. And generally Indian and American relations have been pretty unreliable over the decades (compared to say, the Russians, who've proven to be steadfast and dependable allies) something Indian policymakers will keep in mind when weighing their options. India likes its independence (it was even one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement) and won't give it up so easily.
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  19.  @rodrigopaim82  South Korea was poorer than the North during the time of the Korean war. It was also an autocracy itself. Your heroic picture of the Korean war is nothing but wishful thinking. The US fought that war for the simple reason that it chose to be on their side and its enemy was on their enemies' side. There was nothing idealistic about it.
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  20.  @wlee9888  ​ "I find myself having much better conversations with Germans, Russians, Indians, Saudis, Iranians" - ironically, you're having a conversation with one of them now, and you're not acquitting yourself well for it. And I've seen the proliferation of a lot of things online, including many pertaining to America. The difference being that Americans tend to treat everything they do or think as just 'normal', with everyone else being measured in relation to that. American anti-Chinese sentiment has also proliferated online since 2016 (I'm sure you know the significance of that year...), yet it's not examined. American anti-Muslim sentiment was high before that. America likes to style itself as speaking for the world, which tends to go to its head. You don't. You really REALLY don't - https://youtu.be/CxHMeWfKdHk
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  21. Can you ppl please stop responding to iqbal? He's been posting that same rant under several of Shirvan's vids just to stir the pot. It doesn't even contain any arguments. Don't feed the troll.
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  22. Ah Caspian Report once again returning to the well of the Ukraine war to harvest some views I see. With so much other coverage though, it only makes CR look dated and out of sync by comparison. You really should focus on less headliner content cos this just ain't working out Shirvan.
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  23.  @riser7795  There is no leverage. It's a 'card' sure, but only for fighting for moral browny points in the media. It achieves nothing on the ground. The only one it helps is whoever is using it for their PR.
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  24.  @oppionatedindividual8256  You have no clue how bad the Raj was. Just between 1880 - 1920, out of over 2 centuries that they had colonial control of the subcontinent, it's estimated there were over 100 MILLION excess unalives. The total drain of wealth is estimated over 45 TRILLION bucks. And so on. NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, that's ever happened to any nation in the region compares to how bad the Raj was.
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  25.  @joe_ninety_one5076  China cares far more about being able to counter US attempts to curtail it than north Manchuria, hence the close ties between them and Russia. Russia has additional forces and, more importantly, plentiful resources. Maybe after they remove the US' presence from the area they'll care to be more demanding of Russia, but as long as the two of them (and many others, like Iran) have a common enemy in America, they're gonna see more value in cooperating.
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  26. OMG!! Will you people stop all asking about Shirvan? You're going to be the death of this channel if you insist Caspian Report is all about Shirvan, with no replacement possible. What would you do if Shirvan wasn't available anymore? If he needed a break, or fell sick, or had a fatal accident? Unsub? The core of this channel is and should be about its content, with the narrator serving as only a means of delivery. Else it is limiting itself, and vulnerable.
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  27. Why are you even here then, huh?
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  28. "America was not invading" Lmao! Good joke. :p
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  29. Why am I not surprised that a European colonial empire had its hands in this mess too? Smh...
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  30. It's reasonably neutral at least. Unlike most other such warnings that come from politically charged sources, the Bulletin has tried to maintain its role as a neutral group of concerned scientists. It is still just an opinion, but it's an opinion from a more trustworthy source than most others out there.
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  31. ​ @snuffleuppagus6979  And if you took all those people and put them in a repressive society, I'm willing to bet over 90% of them would choose to live. Hell, people accept life without freedom even without death as the alternative - just go look up the Sultanate of Brunei as an example. The most totalitarian state you've never heard of, and yet there's almost no discontent - cos it's so rich that the people are taken care of just with the dregs of the immense wealth of its ruler. Anyway, it's not for us to lecture them. Freedom, as they say, isn't free. The people who want freedom or death will make their own choices on it, and so will everyone else. But you can't make that choice if you're already dead - and war makes a lot of people dead.
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  32.  @mewoozy2  9/11 killed about 3000 people. The Afghan has killed several orders of magnitude more than that. There was never anything 'moral' about this war. In any case, I think the idea of 'reforming' a country from the outside and top down is wrong headed the begin with. The US' only big success at doing this has been Japan, and that was because the Japanese themselves were up for it. Invading a country to reshape it in your image is proposition doomed to failure, except maybe in some tiny island states with small populations and short histories.
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  33.  @RedLancerMoto  More like talks like someone with a different view from you. Imagine that, real diversity! I forgot humans weren't allowed to have that.
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  34.  @Freshbott2  Soviet Unions' last war ended in 1989. After that it's been America. Even if you extend that to modern Russia, there's been more interventions by America than Russia has to its name. Here's just a partial list of places the US has intervened in just in the post-WW2 period till today - Angola, Argentina, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, Cuba, Congo, Dominican Republic, El Savador, Grenada, Gautemala, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Nicaragua, Panama, Sudan, Vietnam, Yemen, etc. Have fun looking up all that.
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  35.  Lord Ass  Lol, good luck with that. You'd only be shooting yourself in the foot.
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  36. When you see arguments between "Pandemic by CCP and Xitler" and "I Love You China", you know this comment chain is fucked from both sides. You're both advertising how doused in each sides propaganda you each are. Both of you suck.
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  37. Tbh I think it's sad that the top comments on this video are takedowns of the sponsor rather than a discussion of the actual main subject of the video. Shows how little people care about this. I bet there'll be fewer views and comments overall as well. :( This is the kind of less reported content that I WANT to see more of by Caspian, instead of the umpteenth video on Ukraine or China that already get tons of coverage from the rest of the media. But no, it seems others only want him to follow the media herd. -_-
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  38. ​ @captainalex157  Bruh the Vietnam war was also the US 'defending its allies'. 3 million Vietnamese died as a result. There's nothing defensive about the US' 'defences'. They're excuses for defending its hegemony. Who're they going to defend anyway? Taiwan? The US didn't even support Taiwan initially, only after the Korean war - cos then it fit into their larger global war against communism (and it had nothing to do with democracy - Taiwan was a dictatorship itself back then). And who're they going to defend Taiwan from? China has been threatening Taiwan for seventy years, yet today not only is Taiwan prosperous, but China is its largest trade partner by far (contrast that with Cuba, another island that made the mistake of allying with the rival power - and has been invaded, blockaded, embargoed and sanctioned for the last half century by the US for it). The Taiwanese themselves are more circumspect about the whole thing - their own surveys show only about five percent of the people in favour of immediate confrontation, whereas the vast majority of Americans are gung-ho about it (of course they are, the US never has to deal with its messes - it can always retreat as it did in Afghanistan, while its home turf hasn't seen war for over 150 years). So who exactly are they helping, the Taiwanese or their own interests? Ditto Japan. Ditto Korea. Ditto Vietnam. Ditto India. None of them are as keen on fighting China as the US is. Sure they don't like China, but they actually have to deal with the fallout of a war - the US can just helicopter in and out as it pleases. The US' idea of 'helping its allies' always curiously aligns with helping itself. That's what hegemony is all about.
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  39.  @TheTariqibnziyad  I mean, the US has launched multiple wars in just the last few decades. People just don't consider them "major" because only poor brown people die in them...but that's still hundreds of thousands of people.
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  40. They make money from it. So does Djibouti. It's not trolling, just business. Djibouti especially is keen to take in any paying customer.
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  41.  @choochootrain3807  No, this is common nowadays. People are so used to topics like this becoming inflamed that the expectation comments typically end up outnumbering the actual flame wars. You'll find a few long comment threads with said wars, but hundreds of comments anticipating them.
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  42. They did that before and it didn't teach Isr the value of restraint. Why would they restrain themselves now?
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  43.  @2funny269  Considering that Zelensky was trying to join NATO even before this war, yeah. The 2014 occupation of Crimea followed the Maidan revolt that saw Ukraine switch to the West, and the 2022 war started after Zelensky made noises about them joining NATO. It was even preceded by a message not to Ukraine, but to NATO, which NATO ignored. Russia has seen country after country join NATO, against its wishes, for 3 decades now. Protesting didn't work, so they tried making the point by force. Like it or not, it's seen as an extension of American power, just as the Warsaw Pact was Soviet power. Similarly do you think China wants Taiwan just cos of some historical claim? Lol no, they've left well enough alone for over half a century now. The current tensions began in 2017 - nothing changed in China then (Xi came to power in 2012), it changed in America. Specifically Trump came to power and launched an anti-China crusade, which Biden has continued. Taiwan is part of the US' 'first island chain' aimed at constraining China just as NATO does to Russia. Hence why the Chinese are so determined to make sure they never get it, since it's already allied with the US. Even flattening it would be preferable to them than letting America have it. Ultimately neither of these nations will never let the US gain unassailable power over them. They'll go to war before they let that happen. Just as the US didn't tolerate its rival having forces close to them. The end result of this contest is just ever more war.
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  44.  @oe1164  Lol sure bub. In that case you should blame the muricans, since they're the whole reason iran is the way it is in the first place. See who put the shah in power just to secure their interests. Funny how these messes always come back to you huh? Also means that you already DID do that, and it backfired on you spectacularly.
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  45.  @nicolomatias2223  If you want sources, the Cost of War project puts the death toll from the Afghan war at a quarter of a million deaths. And that's just one of the wests' wars this century. And that's from Brown university, which is an American uni.
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  46.  @CaspianReport  The Long Peace refers to the major powers of the world not fighting each other directly after WW2, largely due to how catastrophic that would be. Good for them, but what of everyone else? It doesn't mean the world was peaceful, as there were plenty of civil and proxy wars, including them having their fingers in most of them. In effect all it did was outsource war from their own territories and people onto third country territories and peoples.
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  47.  @PoorPakistanisSurrenderwasFant  Uncle Sam huh? If only I believed that was where your loyalties lay. But I've seen too much of your kinds of comments in recent years (you're not the only Indian here), so I can recognize a bhakt when I see one.
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  48.  @c_n_b  Yes. He's put out community posts on the recent events. Shocking as it may be to hear, videos like this don't get made overnight. This was likely made at least a week or more ago. Try making some content yourself if you think you're better.
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  49. This is hardly political dysfunction, quite the opposite. It's a political apparatus working largely in concert towards a defined goal, it just so happens that that goal is anti-western. That doesn't make it dysfunctional. A better of case of political dysfunction in Russia would be during the Gorbachev or Yeltsin eras, when the country was falling apart internally rather than sanctioned from outside.
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  50. ​ @Minchya  China's navy isn't built around aircraft carriers, nor is it meant to be able to support distant invasions (for instance, China can't invade Peru, despite being far more powerful, while the US can - and did - invade Vietnam). It's designed to counter enemy navies close to home, basically to be an anti-American force based around subs, destroyers and frigates. It isn't meant to have the US' inland power projection (which aircraft carriers are good at) but rather to take out opposing ships from within their massive anti-access area denial system in the china seas. They aren't trying to invade the US homeland, their purpose is to sink its fleet if it dares to come close to them. China also has more ship-building capacity than the US btw. So now only would they have the assistance of their missiles and air force in case of a confrontation, but they can also replenish their forces faster too. Why do you think the US discusses blocking the Malacca Strait instead? Cos they don't want to get close to China. 'Cept if they do that China can just up the ante on Taiwan and Japan in turn.
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