Comments by "" (@12q8) on "Geopolitical Economy Report" channel.

  1. Public-private partnerships are one of the worst. They fail and when they deliver, it is always subpar. The main reason being is that unlike a consumer buying an iPhone, a car, or whatever, from a retailer, when a government or company hires another company to do something, they must write everything in a contract. A contract that is written by humans, will naturally have loopholes that the contractor company can exploit. Also, the contracting party is bind to the contractor party, and cannot exit freely, and would have already invested a ton of money. This can lead to a contract draining more and more tax money from the government while the project gets delayed over and over. A well-written contract requires competent people to write it, and that is a very rare skill. The less trust in a society, the more rigorous and lengthy the contract would be. Unlike in societies like Japan, where good faith and the honor system is quite common in the society.
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  2. The Israeli government even threatened to shut down Haaretz (pronounced Ha-Aretz; where Ha is like "the" and Aretz meaning "land") after the helicopter report.
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  3. That is very true. You can see them in most comment replies being arrogant with zero sense of comprehension.
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  4. AOAV reported back in 2021 that in places like Gaza, 90% of casualties are civilian.
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  5. To put that into perspective, in the 2010s, Palestinian Gaza casualties were in total about 5,100
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  6. Your channel, and Neutrality Studies, are one of the most mature and actual politics instead of just the bs in the news and words of politicians.
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  7. Even part of the 12% do not agree, yet their voices are shunned.
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  8.  @rsuriyop make a typo with every word. More often than not, the trigger word for yt is the most ridiculous word you wouldn’t expect
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  9. They see these rebels as a two pronged weapon. Against Russia, Assad is pro-Russia, and also to help Israel.
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  10. The biggest problem with ancap is that it requires no state to exist. However, with states around with their own currencies and economies they run, they will immediately go down on any free economy left to roam free.
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  11. Not just that Palestine cannot vote as an observer, but also can't take states to the ICJ or utilize many UN organizations directly, which is why South Africa had to take Israel to the ICJ. Also, this just shows another example of why the US does not want Palestine to have full membership and claim that this can be resolved not through international law, but "bilateral agreements" because international law would demand a two-state solution, with a fully independent Palestinian state, based on the 1967 borders, and both Israel and the US oppose that. They want full on one-sided concessions from Palestine to agree to at worst, and a full annexation and ethnic cleansing at best. In the talks between Beilin and Abbas in the 90s and 2000s, the Palestinians made huge concessions on the right of return of refugees to land occupied in 1948, and agreed to a demilitarised Palestinian state, the existence of many Israeli settlements, and the Palestinian capital being in Jerusalem but in a village-like area. The Geneva Act introduced similar concessions on refugees, settlements, a demilitarised Palestinian state and Jerusalem. Yet to this day, Israel refuses it hoping to fully annex Palestine.
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  12. What is the value of the US voter vote? There must be a way to measure how much it is worth compared to lobbying and campaign contributions funding. Is it even worth a dollar?
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  13. I don't usually sit and watch a 1.5 hours video, but this has been enthralling.
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  14. If you look into inflation, it is literally a government's underhanded taxation. When the government prints more money, the government usually spends it first, eventually lowering your dollar value as the new dollars spread through the economy. In the US, iirc, it is deposited from the federal reserve into the reserves of banks where they can loan you that money with a ridiculous interest rate.
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  15. This is even worse than the N*zi's "Hunger Plan" and the Bosnian genoc*de.
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  16. If we look at the bigger picture, this war fits exactly the US's Super Imperialism. Trump wanted to bring back manufacturing, basically gutting out the industrial economy of the world, and wants to spend big to make it happen. But Powell refused to bring rates down, treasury rates are getting expensive because China is not showing up, and investors are not having much trust in Trump's plan, petrodollar is weak with cheaper oil, he could not end the Russia-Ukraine war. Despite words about a China war, it would be near impossible and pushing one of the tiny US allies needs more time to cook. Iran was seen as the weakest of the three, Iran has been historically demonized, and Israel has been salivating over it forever. This is the US's and Trump's last ditch effort to save the US economy. If this escalates, oil price spikes, which is mostly traded in dollars still, which increases dollar demand, central banks would buy more US bonds, financing Trump's plans. Ukraine alone was not making the cut, and I think I watched a video somewhere a while ago that the US needs to start another war to fund its empire, which was theorized by that video to be China, but Iran fitted the bill better apparently.
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  17. The Monroe Doctrine was also the same thing an infamous German chancellor referenced to legitimize his Lebensraum policy.
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  18. Wow, "America has intelligence" and from who? Israel?
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  19. At the same time, you see them blabbing about diversity and immigrants, and don't even see the big picture. If anything, they don't understand that immigrants and diversity is just a tool used by their politicians to keep their imperialist world status. They want to control the low-paid labor, and bring them within their borders to control, while also brain draining the global south, treating the Europeans, the native population, and their culture as sacrificial sheep for their hegemony.
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  20. They use all sorts of labels. Islamist, terrorists, anti-communist, pro-western. Whatever the region. But their backers are all one: the US
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  21. When the US is beaten, they cry about fairness.
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  22. The worst part is that Israel uses that 60-70% women and children death as the baseline for civilians deaths, so they automatically assume all men 18 and older to be combatants, which is crazy.
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  23. That resort explains why Qatar signed the agreement. Lol.
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  24. The neo-liberal interpretation of capitalism of freeing the market works if there was no other state supporting its own local industries.
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  25. "If Iran decides to finalize its assembly" which is not a simple 2 weeks effort.
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  26. Another time was during the oil shocks of 2014 I think, when the US pressured Saudi Arabia to dump oil prices to strangle Russian shale oil. Though I haven't researched this a lot. Just what I heard back then discussed.
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  27. The double standards is sickening! The same Western government will use any word said by anyone they disagree with as direct evidence for anything they want to smear them with.
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