Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Alexander Mercouris" channel.

  1. He's pretty pro-Russian, but backs it with facts.
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  2. Very concerning. But half right is better than all wrong. Even as a staunch supporter of Israel, I think Trump may very well insist on fundamental changes to how things are done.
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  3. Expecting new leaders with too much power to fix problems that old leaders with too much power created is futile.
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  4.  @damn6  Those who fled might want to stay fled.
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  5.  @tommyboss4067  There was never a significant number of foreign volunteers. The aid has been orders of magnitude less than the true scale of the conflict.
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  6. Happy holidays and best wishes!
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  7.  @billyandrew  I used to read LaRouche's stuff, back in the '70s. Some of it held up. Some of it didn't. I liked having his paper as an alternative resource. I can't even remember what it was called.... Looking... Oh yeah. "New Solidarity." I was just a kid, but Dad was pretty omnivorous, always looking for alternate voices that confirmed his biases. As I recall, some of his stuff was good. Some of it was trash. But it was excellent for contrast-and-comparison with MSM. My main takeaway was he was pretty fast and loose, sometimes, which made him only about 1/4 as bad as MSM. I came away from the '70s concluding that the best thing was to ignore the day-to-day news, diversify my sources, and basically believe NObody, 100%, just try to arrive at principles that seemed to be moral and seemed to work. You can devote your entire waking life to this stuff and end up more full of misinformation than facts, because EVERYone has an axe to grind. EVERYbody has something good to offer. EVERYbody has something to hide. The one principle that seems to hold up is that any concentration of power is prone to corruption and will eventually be corrupted, because the wrong people will eventually be in those high positions. Organized distrust of concentrated power in the hands of a few always seems to be the right stance. Think not of all the good they can do, but all the harm that will inevitably be done, and visited on EVERYone. Keep the power de-centralized and nobody can screw everything up for everybody, and MOST people will handle their business better on their own than under the orders of others.
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  8. I don't know the history of how Donbass region became mostly Russian. But accepting that as a given, it's hard to fault the Russians for recognizing their sovereignty in the wake of western-backed coup in 2014 and ongoing war on Donbass ever since, and the flouting of Minsk Agreement(s) by Ukraine on the advice of NATO leadership. Obviously, sanctions are backfiring, which was totally predictable, given the resource realities and the fiscal recklessness of the West.
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  9. I disagree. When you're in an insane situation, only something crazy is going to work. For instance, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941 wasn't a mistake. It was trying to take a puncher's chance in a situation the Japanese knew would otherwise end in their subordination to American and European interests, like China and every other Asian nation at the time. Japan was the Last Man Standing in Asia that wasn't under the thumb or had a chance at getting out from under the thumb (See "Commodore Perry steams into Tokyo Harbor (circa 1830, iirc)." It was crazy. The USA was a behemoth compared to Japan. But Japan was slowly, inevitably losing if they did nothing, and the USA was only getting bigger and stronger in the meantime. Maybe Kursk offensive pays off. Maybe it triggers an outpouring of foreign assistance that's an order of magnitude (or 2) greater. Game changer. Maybe the political impact of the brazen attack galvanizes support for scrappy Ukraine from nations all around the world. If it had (It didn't), then the audacious, strategically unsound offensive is made into something much more. Ukraine needed to change the game. It was losing the game. The Kursk offensive will hasten their end, if it fails, which it appears it has, but it gave them a puncher's chance of re-setting the game board, something Ukraine desperately needed.
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  10. @John Rosa Just type the time off the bottom of the video when the events occur.
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  11.  @Bougiebete  I couldn't agree more. "What's this? I didn't order a tailor!" "You want to look good in your uniform, don't you, private, er, ah, Senator?" "Get McConnell on the phone! We've GOT to give peace a chance, dammit!"
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  12.  @consciousgentile5141  America is increasingly crooked, largely by functional one-party rule by the Democrats. Everything wrong about America is when it departs from the principles most of its people used to believe in, like individual rights. But yeah. The more we get bribed and corrupted by CCP, the more we run things like La Cosa Nostra. There've always been robber barons in this country, almost from the start. And they've always done the most harm and gained the greatest wealth NOT by being left to compete in the free market, but by government assistance. Every agency created to protect the people from the robber barons has protected robber barons from the people. Government as the panacea is the problem. Government solutions are never solutions. All the cases of "runaway capitalism" have had at their root a law or regulation that SEEMED to benefit the people, but in the end just benefited the biggest robber barons. The FDA works for Big Pharma. The Dept of Agriculture works for Monsanto. The list goes on and on.
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  13.  @rphb5870  Pretty much. But establishment of the Warsaw Pact wasn't entirely unjustified.
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  14.  @imrekalman9044  In the '80s, the West over-reported Soviet strength by a factor of 10.
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  15.  @PerceivedREALITY999  Pretty much my take. Our media ignore recent history and the rot that set in in the West when the Soviet Union ended.
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  16. Thanks for the update.
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  17.  @76verdee  You made sense until you started your own regime-change rant. Forcible regime change anywhere only cements the most corrupt, most corruptible, and least competent and answerable to the wishes of people who would be fine if just left the hell alone.
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  18.  @dabig_guy2204  The lengths to which The Swamp will go to cover its blunders and corruption are limitless. A bunch of Obama officials SHOULD have gone to jail, but instead we had 3 years of RussiaGate.
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  19.  @DTJKS  Free speech is rarely a feature of democracy. Free speech is a feature of a constitutional republic with rights guaranteed by law.
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  20.  @anonymoussource7999  YouTube enforces the ruling class's preferred narratives. It's state-run in everything but name.
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  21. Only a Catch-22 if they rely entirely on negotiation.
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  22. Just did a little scribbling. The yield of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was in the neighborhood of 4 billion joules. The effective yield of an Oreshnik with say 100 kg of dead weight coming down, would deliver about 450 million joules, which is slightly more than one order of magnitude less than Hiroshima, give or take. The scary thing is that they're saying the payload of the Oreshnik is closer to 1.5 (metric?) tons. That's another order of magnitude greater than the 100 kg I put in the (1/2)mv^2 calculation, in kilograms-meters-seconds units, so these conventional arms have the power of a small nuke, basically. And it's all directed downward. Can't be defended against and rivals or exceeds Western bunker buster munitions.
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  23. We all knew the spigot would eventually run dry. Top officials are still living in denial of reality, but they can't lie to themselves about the politics, which are following economic realities. There's zero appetite for it in the mass of people, and cobbling together neocon ruling coalitions is growing increasingly difficult, even though they're very good at keeping the peace-mongers out of power.
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  24. "No entangling alliances." - George Washington
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  25.  @themanwiththegoldengun1998  Tactics have evolved a lot in the last couple years.
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  26. Glimmerings of common sense emerging in our discredited State Department and White House?
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  27. They've gotten too big for their britches.
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  28. If we abandon our proxies, it makes it harder to recruit new proxies.
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  29. The only way to legitimize themselves is a crisis sufficiently great to get the people to rally to the flag. War's a favorite tool for this purpose. But I think it's getting harder and harder to manufacture consent, these days.
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  30. American potential WAS unlimited, back when the government was limited. Imagine the government's joy at discovering war as an excuse to exceed its legal limits. Uni-Party on war goes way back to the days when the Republicans were war hawks and even as the minority, they could push through defense spending with the votes of a handful of Scoop Jackson hawks amongst the Democrats. That was when Republicans still fought against massive social spending. By Bill Clinton's presidency, the Republicans joined the Democrats on the social spending side, and the Democrats joined the Republicans on the defense spending side. More spending wins re-election for both sides. There's a lot of posturing, but both sides want to take all our money and throw their weight around, abroad. Everything about the U.S. federal government is un-American, at this point. No liberty. No self-responsibility. "Obey and we will take care of you at others' expense" is the Uni-Party.
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  31. We're exceptional because we distrust power and don't play imperialist games. But our leaders think that because we're exceptional, we can play imperialist games, without regard for the rights of individuals or nations.
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  32.  @jpphua602  I just imply a question mark at the end of all my random thoughts, like this?
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  33.  @yuribeard5753  I can get on board with that. The "who's winning?" fades by comparison to the lives lost and lives damaged beyond repair.
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  34.  @redscope897  Kievan Rus faced the Mongols almost 1000 years ago. But go on,
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  35.  @redscope897  Mostly yes. Napoleon depended on pillage and Russia went scorched-earth on him. The parallels to Ukraine are few.
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  36.  @wafudave6041  TOFU DREGS!
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  37. I never thought I'd say this in my lifetime, but I don't feel like the USA has the moral high ground, like I used to feel. The Ukrainian government looks like a puppet regime installed for profit by American and Ukrainian oligarchs. The influence peddling is right out in the open, and the only person charged was Donald Trump, who was on the verge of exposing all of it by trying to help Zelensky clean up the Ukrainian justice system that was OBVIOUSLY, ADMITTEDLY being manipulated by threats to cut off U.S. aid if the guy investigating Burisma wasn't fired.
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  38. Sadly, this applies to career government officials and establishment media, who are their minions, no different from "access media" who give Hollywood tongue baths.
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  39. The main psychotic aspect of it is the deep-seated belief that government officials need to "run things." They need to guarantee our liberty and let US run things.
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  40.  @DennisMerwood  One can glean wisdom from fiction, especially mystical and allegorical fiction that's survived millennia, if for no other purpose than to figure out what's in the heads of people around you!
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  41.  @duellingscarguevara  Yeah. I tried to donate to the local food bank, only to learn that it's regional. I want to help my local community. I don't have anything against other communities, but charity starts at home, and - honestly - I don't want all my donations being sucked up by some big, corrupt blue city.
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  42.  @john99776  Can't reform it. All you can do is cut it, which they refuse to do.
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  43.  @tombombadil8709  Russia can keep on pounding NATO/Ukraine forces at much greater cost to them than to Russia. Russia doesn't have to conquer all of Ukraine. It just has to destroy the war-fighting capability of Ukraine to remove it as a threat. This has many of the hallmarks of the Kursk incursion. Great success, at first, only to find yourself worse off than when you started, because of the resources that were wasted. USA has been building up the rebels for quite some time, so they have an early advantage, but is the wherewithal there to really hold Syria? We'll see. I think American logistics aren't up to the task. I don't think American will to fight another war in the Middle East is there. Even if it's there, the military is soy, and totally beholden to the military industrial complex, which wants to see expensive weaponry that only works if you have total air superiority, which nobody has in a battle between major powers. What I'm not sure of is how much Turkey has to put into the effort or how serious Turkey is about trying to hold on to Syria. That will make a huge difference, one way or the other.
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  44.  @schrodingerscat1863  Exactly. He's made these statements. It's caused a stir. Ukrainians went on the offensive and were destroyed. Russians are taking light losses and inflicting heavy casualties. Over and over. What angers me most is Western nations thinking it's a good thing, the longer this goes on, because it's sapping Russia. Reminds me of the joke where a man killed himself trying to f*** his wife to death.
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  45. Russia and USA would be natural allies if the American Establishment weren't so feckless.
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  46. Counter-offensive = Battle of the Bulges.
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  47. It's a metaphor for the low regard the NATO virtue-signalers actually have for ANYone not in their little club.
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  48. Huawei is blocked because CCP is crime organization.
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  49.  @consciousgentile5141  I didn't say that. But I know we are much better off, here, in the USA than the average person in China, and it's not even close. We have more freedom, functionally speaking, than in China, although they're working tirelessly to turn us into another China, as we speak.
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  50. Yes. Zoomed-in accounts of a skirmish along the tree-line bordering a 10-acre wheat field is not very useful.
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