Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Dialogue Works" channel.

  1. What good is winning if you become all the worst things you see in your enemy?
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  2. If by "stalemate" you mean relatively static front lines and trading blows, then it is a stalemate. But it's not a stalemate when you consider the relative cost of the trading of blows. I think NATO and Ukraine have been making decisions based on realities that no longer apply. Russia has gotten its house in order, step by step, over the last 25 years, while the West has been sabotaging itself, with one blunder after the next, for over 30 years. Energy, manufacturing, culture, and the very relationship between state and citizenry (They work for us, not the other way around, and they've lost sight of that). They are at war with themselves. They're still capable of great mischief, but their underlying fundamentals are in the toilet. They've basically outlawed everything that once undergirded American (and its European vassals') ascendance, and clung to/reverted to all the old, corrupt, aristocratic forms that they used to brag about leaving behind.
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  3. 43 million gun deaths in America last year? C'mon, man. Try 43,000, not 43,000,000. You're off by a factor of 1000. How can I take you at all seriously?
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  4. The guy wears a crew cut and maybe he was somewhat sheltered. Either way, it's obviously a manipulated image.
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  5. This is what religion/philosophy are for. Those who think politics solves problems are stuck on the wheel. Bend your thoughts and efforts to keeping from being crushed by the wheel, and being grateful for every minute of peace, joy, and brotherhood you can steal from the infinite wheel.
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  6. Yes. Assessing Western capabilities and crumbling manufacturing base, it looked like there was no way we could win a conventional war on Russia's doorstep. My fear, since the smo began was that NATO would resort to nukes, possibly with a false flag tactical nuke, leading to an extinction-level chain reaction. The "stalemate" may be a calculation by Russia to continue attrition of the forces on its border without ever evincing a desire/ability to go any further. All the hopium being injected about Ukraine's ability to win actually helped the (preferred) war of attrition for the Russians. Putin's been in a box since taking over in '98. He had to re-build a broken nation, and a bloated military just wasn't in the cards if he wanted to right the ship. Halting NATO expansion was a near-run thing.
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  7. He's making a lot of sense.
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  8.  @aliceinabsentia  game of thrones
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  9. "Panegyric." Never heard anyone speak it out loud.
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  10. Very engaging and entertaining.
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  11. It's so sad that FOX is considered the "alternative" to other legacy media. Dan Pompeo, General Keane, ... All these bloodthirsty neocons who are living in a reality that no longer exists, pushing policies that bring nothing but destruction at home and abroad, all to keep a small sliver of society at the top, across national borders, without regard for human life.
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  12. I can't eat a missile.
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  13. The Israelis DO care what the world thinks, which is why they propagandize the American public and lobby the U.S. Government so hard.
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  14. Don't look to the Joint Chiefs to bring sanity. They're political hacks.
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  15. The British don't need a Navy, if the USA does their bidding.
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  16. Since WW I, it's been downhill. Cascading errors fueled by greed for power, fame, and wealth, without any regard for the people.
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  17.  @joelturley4847  Asymmetric warfare by inmates of an outdoor prison.
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  18.  @abdou.the.heretic  I think it's a bit ironic when atheists use Christian epithets. Why would you use them if God has no power? Why single out a religion to blaspheme against, to no purpose?
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  19. So you're saying the jack-booted thugs that came knocking were polite?
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  20. If Israel can't live at peace with its neighbors, I don't see how it can survive. Younger generations in the USA are not indoctrinated in Catholicism/Protestantism to nearly the same degree, and nearly all older generations in the USA are indoctrinated in Christianity, where we learned that it was a GOOD thing to bring about the 2nd Coming of Christ, and the creation of the state of Israel is part of the prophecy, and all American preachers of most denominations preached support of the state of Israel as part of being a good Christian. I always wondered about that. I sure never wanted to hurry the Apocalypse! Now, of course, I see the means used to create and preserve it as not being what Jesus would have wanted, nor the God of the Old Testament.
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  21. American government despises the U.S. Constitution and all the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence.
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  22. "It's good for our economy!"
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  23.  @kimlodrodawa123  We're witnessing the end of mass media, and the tail-wagging-the-dog crowd are beside themselves in anger and angst.
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  24. We are Israel's proxy and Israel is our proxy. Each gives the other tacit approval to be a perennial aggressor in the Middle East. Each clings to fake deniability of the worst actions of the other. The slaughter is necessary to preserve a Jewish ethno-state. Apartheid is necessary to preserve a Jewish ethno-state. Something I learned early in my math career was that if you wish to disprove a proposition, assume the proposition holds. If the proposition does not hold, you will inevitably arrive at an absurdity. The absurdity proves the falsity of the proposition, if you reason logically from the proposition. Human slaughter is the absurdity; therefore it is rooted in a false proposition: "Ethno-state is paramount. All else is subordinate to that over-arching and absolute need."
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  25. The U.S. Constitution basically says nothing that wasn't backed by a 2/3 majority, and it requires a 2/3 majority to overturn any aspect. Or at least that was the idea. That put severe restrictions on the scope and power of the federal government, By Design. Most of what the federal government does, now, is unconstitutional, in my opinion. Entire departments exist outside of the original framework, without any constitutional amendments permitting their creation. Most of what the feds do, now, should be done by the state and local governments. The federal government's not designed to administer everything under the sun for all 50 states. It wasn't the idea, back in the day, and it's clear that the job's way too big for the federal government, now.
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  26. American who grew up during the Cold War. I don't recognize my own country. Growing up, I could still believe that we were the good guys.
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  27. Blumenthal is awesome on this issue, but he's a degenerate socialist, i.e., economically illiterate and stuck on the wheel of looking for perfect leaders, instead of limiting the powers of human leaders.
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  28. If BRIC$ is successful - and there's no guarantee it will be - then the U$A will lose much/most/all of its economic extortion power, but more importantly, the U$A will not be able to finance its enormous debts with the same irresponsible ease as before. A nation that can't balance its budget and pay off its debts in peacetime is a failed state, basically a 3rd-World nation. When you look at the runaway authoritarianism and corruption of our major institutions, we're well on our way to 3rd-World status. $o sad. I'm just not sure that any of the nations in BRIC$, other than Russia, has its financial house in order, and an inflation-proof, commodities backed currency is a foreign concept to most of the member states. It's a noble goal, and would be a benefit to all mankind, but it forces the kind of fiscal responsibility onto governments that few governments are willing or able to exercise. The Petrodollar is trash, but only Russia and an oil-rich OPEC nation or two will be able or willing to be that disciplined.
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  29. Republicans aren't against aid to Ukraine on principle. They just want to get border security passed. Otherwise, they're fine with murder and destabilization abroad. Always have been. It's all uni-party in the U$A, and the people's wishes be damned.
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  30. The state of Israel has nuclear weapons.
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  31. ..., the destruction of Libya in 2011, ... You left off around 2008, but your point about NATO's and especially the USA's behavior since 1999 had to be seen as putrid by Putin.
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  32. USA's plainly mad, but also stupid. USA placed all its faith in finance and force. Putin put his faith in basic industrial indicators of fundamental economic well-being.
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  33. We're being spanked, conventionally.
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  34.  @vivalasvegas1999  Nazi generals wrote the history of the war, especially on the eastern front. When the wall came down and records were released, the Nazi generals' narratives were obliterated.
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  35.  @coffee6783  Britain made promises to every ethnic group in the Middle East, to topple the Ottomans. "Fight the Ottomans and win nationhood." The only tribe they tried to keep that promise to, and it was only after World War II, with American might to back the Balfour Declaration, was Israel. In many respects, American foreign policy was just an extension of Victorian foreign policy, spearheaded by guys like Winston Churchill, who looked at the map of the region like he was deciding where to put the pool and the garden in his back yard.
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