Comments by "NotAPacifist" (@NotAPacifist825) on "Geopolitical Economy Report" channel.

  1. This is what happens when you abuse your privilege.
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  2. Ironic that when the u.s. talks of a country controlling their own geography and resources, we refer to them as a "foreign power."
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  3. The sad thing about all this is that it is entirely self-inflicted by the European leadership. Russia and China would happily have continued to trade with Europe but Europe sacrificed its own people for the American imperialist project.
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  4. The arrogance infuriates me. I can't wait to see these monsters humiliated.
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  5. The SCO is another huge deal that most Americans are completely unaware of.
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  6. Yellen's accusation that having a successful industrial policy is somehow "cheating" is simply an admission that capitalism is a failed system.
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  7. Just have to say watching these smug little clowns freak out is pure gold.
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  8. Ben gives a master class on deconstructing propaganda.
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  9. Anytime a social scientist invokes evolutionary biology I'm not just suspicious, I'm downright terrified.
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  10. ​ @loretta231 that's because most of them are single issue parties that are capitalist at their core. The essential choice is between capitalism and marxism. Everything else is just window dressing.
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  11. Best YouTube channel on economics.
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  12. This is not how ambassadors are supposed to act. Id throw him out of the country.
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  13. Britain also stole Venezuela's gold reserves, and it's high court upheld the theft in a suit brought by president Maduro on the basis that the real president of Venezuela was Juan Guaido 🤣🤣🤣
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  14. Clowns that have nuclear weapons
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  15. ​ @bowlchamps37 Grayzone IS independent, genius. What dictators has that channel celebrated? Do tell. 😂
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  16. That memo to the troops is dr. Strangelove level crazy. It includes a paragraph that discusses how your life is better when you kill your enemies. Food tastes better, your marriage is better, etc. Next level psychopathy.
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  17. Aaron Good is really brilliant here.
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  18. Is there any treaty or international agreement the United States has not violated? Asking for a friend.
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  19. As usual, these policies will harm our own citizens most of all. USA!
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  20. Can someone count the number of times they said "communist" and "ccp"?
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  21. It was a surveillance device. It was surveiling the weather.
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  22. Yeah people say he was coerced by the fascists but he sure has adopted his new persona with a gusto that seems hard to take. It's notable that the peace position was overwhelmingly popular. I wish we could get accurate reporting on how the people really feel about this war.
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  23. Creating the CIA was a really bad idea.
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  24. Don't forget all those NGOs,think tanks, and "human rights" organizations, like the NED.
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  25. I think it does. Only u.s. citizens, who are so thoroughly propagandized, don't.
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  26. This series is fantastic.
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  27. Ben's the best
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  28. And if it weren't for channels like this, none of us in the west would know about any of it.
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  29. Ben is intellectually rigorous and so solid.
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  30. As a native born u.s. citizen, I feel like a parent who learns his child is a serial killer. You love them, but you know they must be stopped.
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  31. Thank you, Ben, for this important information.
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  32. And that is the next part of his evil speech.
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  33. It preserved it but didn't start it
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  34. Imteresting information. Thank you, Ben. The really difficult question is, of the small portion of the electorate that supports sending more weapons to Israel, what percentage reached that conclusion on their own and what percentage are simply propagandized to agree with the empire's policy?
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  35. Great coverage, as always
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  36. Ben is the best!
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  37. Yes. A ship of fools.
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  38. He's actually describing an asphalt jungle.
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  39. You are the one offering an alternative history. Ben is describing the actual history. Your deflection is a poor apology for mass murder.
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  40. They better shut down the annual balloon event in Phoenix or a lot of people are gonna die.
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  41. Yes he basically said Europe must conquer the world and tell all lesser peoples how to behave.
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  42. Great video, Ben. I would really like to see a deep dive on how the brain drain from developing countries to the West actually works, complete with your usual statistical and source evidence.
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  43. This is the real reason the FBI should be dismantled.
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  44. I've learned a lot from Aaron. Interesting stuff!
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  45. I watched my first ever Epoch Times video today. I've seen a lot of ads in the past so I watched one. It was very slick, but outrageous, propaganda.
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  46.  @trout1187  agreed. I'm not a fan of Putin's conservative politics but 70% of his citizens support his policies and he is doing the world a great service standing up to imperialism.
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  47. Such a bloodless ghoul
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  48. Tyt and DN are not left. But I get your point.
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  49. ​ @sootuckchoong7077  or single parents. Since there's no affordable child care, they will have to abandon their kids to work those hours at some shit job. Then social services can take their kids due to neglect. Problem solved! 😳
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  50. New name. Same great content. Thanks, Ben!
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  51. Lol yea
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  52. What a clown show US politics is
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  53.  @yurichtube1162  not even a little, but nice try.
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  54. ​ @sensi6457  are you really this uninformed?
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  55.  @jjmail1971  lol whaaa?
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  56. Aw shit. It never ends.
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  57. When explanations are so confusing or "complicated" that you can't connect the dots, you are probably being lied to.
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  58. The trick will be mitigating the atrocities the empire will commit as it dies.
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  59.  @sandrocoronado9780  I don't think that was the point.
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  60. Don't forget the Pentagon budget does NOT include the VA, the nuclear weapons program, or the alphabet agencies like the CIA.
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  61. I hear he will succeed Zelensky as president of Ukraine.
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  62. Frankly, I find him disappointing. More of a liberal than anything.
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  63. Great job owning those tools!
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  64. Considering the electorate, I wouldn't rule it out.
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  65. If we continue to enjoy the ill-gotten gains of our ancestors without attempting to give redress to their victims, we fail to balance the scales and are thereby complicit.
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  66. Has the time finally come for China, Russia, the global south, and all other sovereign nations to impose sweeping sanctions against the United States, shut down it's economy, and effect much needed regime change to set in motion a peaceful, cooperative world order that benefits the well-being of humanity and the planet?
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  67.  @Sam-ip6co  the parts that went over your head, apparently
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  68. The empire is going to do terrible damage as it dies.
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  69.  @raaid85  exactly. Their early Ukraine coverage was terrible and they got a lot of pushback from viewers and now they sometimes allow guests to express anti-war ideas. But it's still not great. 😯
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  70. With literally zero coverage by the mainstream western press.
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  71. And especially Allende
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  72. Navy seals broke the pipeline.
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  73. Now he's kissing Venezuela's ass
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  74. @M Magnificat not a flaw in logic. Regardless, when 90% of your trade is petroleum based, you can't just "restructure your economy," as evidenced by how hard hit Venezuela was.
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  75. Also hilarious the guy using Modi as the example of BRICS country that is not autocratic.
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  76. Thank you for bringing this otherwise unavailable information to us in the United States, the most propagandized people on earth.
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  77. "Religious values" is an oxymoron
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  78. Lol great job as always, Ben
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  79. You could've just said "capitalism."
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  80. Lol. That's like the Klan hoping David Duke doesn't screw up and give them a bad name.
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  81. Excellent point
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  82. Yes. Brilliant!
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  83. Shell oil is dutch. BP is British.
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  84.  @bluecollarred6912  my point was just that perhaps the Ukrainian people themselves are opposed to the war but we don't get to hear about it
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  85. ​ @JohnT.4321 PSL is actively seeking ballot access using the best available strategies. They are the candidates in my state, south Carolina, under the SC workers party.
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  86.  @Brianbeesandbikes  why are you lecturing me for saying Borrell's speech was evil? It is blatantly racist and imperialist.
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  87.  @e-magineerAllThings  it all leads to the same place. Just different points on the trajectory.
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  88. No one perspective ever is. But he's not wrong either.
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  89.  @carldrogo9492  no I'm not. for me, left means socialism. I'm not using the term in the sense of oh they are to the left of Mussolini. Neither program has ever been socialist as long as I have watched. Both of them often strongly push points of view that are associated with the right.
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  90. Palestinians are in a concentration camp, UNLIKE uyghurs in xinjiang. ​@SGN30
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  91. And the Spanish American war, possibly the first of such subterfuges.
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  92. Europe has many beautiful and fascinating aspects. Imperialism is not one of them. If only it can reject imperialism and capitalism, the rest is worth preserving.
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  93. ​ @attilaszekeres7435 fascism and communism are not similar, not even close. Under fascism the individual serves the state. Under communism, the state serves the people. This is evident in socialist countries like China and Cuba, where direct democratic action and public opinion drive government policy, unlike in Western "democracies." This is also evident in not just the stated goals of China and Cuba, which are people (not state) focused, but the actual policies and progress made. Communism has not yet been achieved, primarily because it is under constant attack by capitalist-imperialist powers.
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  94. "Irregular war" just means terrorism.
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  95. The empire tries to hide its failures.
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  96. Buenos dias Ben.
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  97.  @fun_ghoul  The empire will not die before inflicting terrible atrocities on the world.
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  98. The language of all these neocons is such disgusting propaganda. Every effort of other nations to exercise their sovereignty and engage in free trade is called a "threat" and every act of war by the United States is in furtherance of "democracy" and freedom from foreign "dependence."
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  99. Yea not
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  100. Certainly in my top 5. The best on economics for sure.
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  101. Thank you, Ben. You do so much work investigating these matters so I don't have to.
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  102. Has Johns Hopkins turned into a fascist school? Lately, all the news about them is terrible.
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  103. That would be hilariously ironic
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  104. Pretty sure she doesn't care
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  105.  @mikeyu5004  nice anecdote, bro. His data is well confirmed by multiple third party sources, except the average Chinese wage which I believe has "merely" quadrupled in the last 4 decades.
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  106. You do realize that more people are born and then die over the course of two centuries, right?
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  107. But Iraaaaaaan!
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  108. The left lens posted a vid earlier called Winter is Coming. Garland Nixon explained the u.s.-eu relationship perfectly.
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  109. Drop all sanctions with a promise to leave them off, recognize Maduro, and issue a public apology. Then, maybe.
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  110. Ben, I'm a big fan of your work and this no exception. But I think those who argue that comparative advantage requires that industry not be developed in the global South are misunderstanding the concept. Comparative advantage simply recognizes that at any point in time a nation may have an advantage over competitors due to geography, environment, education and skill levels of labor, or other factors that make a particular industry more efficient for them. Some of these, like education, can be overcome by collective effort and reallocation of resources to establish new industries. Others, like environment, cannot be. A current example might be the United States effort to relocate microchip manufacturing, which requires enormous amounts of water, from Taiwan, an island, to Arizona, a desert.
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  111. Citations needed
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  112. I love that Ben always gives links to his sources. Respect.
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  113. They are acts of war against primarily civilian targets.
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  114. Notice the USA can't articulate what exactly the threat from China is. It is actually the threat of exposing that we are a failed state.
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  115. He is, understandably, laughing at our stupidity.
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  116.  @MB2.0  may your blades never dull.
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  117. ​ @joekulik999 the level of your commentary tells us everything we need to know about you: that you are completely unserious and justifiably ignored.
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  118. Always nice when there's good news.
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  119. I'm extremely suspicious of the October 7th number claiming 1400 dead. Where is the evidence for this number and what is the purported breakdown between civilians and military?
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  120.  @standingalone001  sometimes people delete their own comments, especially when they realize how stupid they are.
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  121. It's just heartwarming that Jean kirkpatrick, condoleezza rice, and now, Victoria newland have demonstrated that women can be every bit as psychopathic as their male counterparts.
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  122. Where did the other comment go?
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  123. That's not what imperialism is. Imperialism is capture of other nation-states through economic or militaristic pressures and their subsequent exploitation for the unequal benefit of the imperial core.
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  124.  @user-ex7qx4pv2u  projection
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  125. ​ @niket527 also, he doesn't speak French. So obviously we shouldn't listen to any of his analysis. 🤪
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  126. It's important that Americans get some exposure to this as most of us have no clue of the ideologies and legal structures operating in Europe.
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  127. Looks like it worked with even more sophisticated tactics in Moldova.
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  128. This move is a shiny bauble for NATO that also frees Russia to drop the failed grain deal. It is inconceivable that Putin and Erdogan didn't agree to this in advance
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  129. Wait, tony Blair, Bill Clinton and bono? This is not a good thing.
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  130.  @paulrobbieparker3983  do you think otherwise?
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  131. Such an important, but rarely made point, that student loans are just a number on a page. They're not money being paid to people. Much of that debt was never going to be repaid but as long as it exists it serves only to repress economic growth and shackle a significant portion of the population: the portion that sought to better themselves and society by becoming better educated. Libertarians, isn't it better to put that money back in the hands of people that will invest and spend in the "free market" than leaving it under the control of the terrible, incompetent, corrupt, inefficient government?
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  132. It's just a name like various labor parties. They're not necessarily affiliated.
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  133. Hilarious when the u.s. claims Russia interferes is our politics. 😢
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  134. Who cares, bro?
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  135. Rules based global order is a thing colonialists invented when they decided to start breaking international law.
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  136.  @angrycrypto465  please do. Him making a racist comment would be extremely surprising, to say the least.
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  137. @TheDrewSaga it's also not a good look when your best argument is "what about Genghis Kahn?"
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  138. Ben is a socialist, not a liberal.
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  139. Even if Trump and his team are complete idiots, the people that actually control them are not. These billionaires know perfectly well that this will not succeed as an industrial policy. These policies are a way to squeeze the last bit of life out of our own working class, putting us on even footing with workers in our colonies (which are becoming more resistant to their own exploitation.) This is entirely predictable in late stage capitalism.
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  140. ​ @kateoneal4215  This.
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  141. Thank you three for this brilliant series. A great achievement, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable.
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  142. Five dollar loaves of bread are already commonplace in the u.s.
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  143. Or zelensky
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  144. The u.s. is always proud when it hurts people.
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  145. The US military budget doesn't include the budgets for the VA or the nuclear program or the alphabet agencies like the CIA. Not sure where funding for mercenary forces is accounted for. I do recall that the last Ukraine lethal aid bill of $40 billion included an "undisclosed amount" for the CIA.
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  146. Dr. Desai, I was pleasantly surprised to see your insightful and respectful question to President Putin on RN.
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  147. I read it last night and it is accurate and very broad in scope. Imo, it needs citations and lots of them. That way, sceptical readers can drill down and immediately know that everything in there is 100% true. I know that's a lot of work as there is almost limitless evidence. Either way, I'm glad China is finally confronting the propaganda head on.
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  148. It is literally the job of these security state employees to feed propaganda to the press. Everyone in the press knows that. It's not incompetence. It's much, much worse.
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  149. It's funny to note Sulemani was very pro women's rights, given our current fake hijab outrage.
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  150. What about the people?
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  151. ​ @pipster1891  no. He means foisted. As in, "foisted by his own petard."
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  152. Seems like your channel just keeps getting better, Ben. Thorough research, unimpeachable sources, rigorous analysis. Top shelf stuff.
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  153.  @PutXi_Whipped  how is that comment DSA?
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  154.  @Pomegranate_David  oh yeah weirdos act like that's a thing. No wonder it was unintelligible.
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  155. It is also worth noting that as us oil companies can charge up to 10 times more for fuel shipped to Europe, this will greatly increase the cost of fuel domestically.
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  156. Citations (desperately) needed.
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  157. 👍👍
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  158. I don't think the transatlantic slave trade was a genocide because the intent to erase a culture it ethnic group is lacking. But it was arguably worse than genocide.
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  159. ​ @patbyrneme007  it is hardly a dictatorship. Demonstrably more democratic than the United States. Don't make unsupported blanket assertions based on your biases.
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  160. When I read your previous comment, I thought you were ignorant. Now I see you are a troll.
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  161. ​ @boi9842 🤡
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  162.  @alejandrosanchez6683  😅
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  163. They don't even try to hide it.
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  164. ​ @redeyexxx1841 keep telling yourself these children's stories. It's easier than learning.
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  165. Please make amlo's position on Haiti make sense ☹️
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  166. We be it
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  167. They don't care. They hold the world and humanity in contempt.
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  168. Hey Ben. I heard 9 Russian dudes said bad things about Hilary on Facebook in 2016. Isn't that outrageous?
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  169. It seems that in the "west" only leftists understand and tell the truth about history and geopolitics. This interview needs a lot more views.
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  170.  @aprescoup  examples?
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  171.  @sirius1696  fair point. They're not actually anti war. They're just opposing a policy of the other team. But they got a spending reduction, are showing that concessions can be had, and that the squad and their pimps lied, all of which are beneficial.
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  172. You're for a guy that can't be bothered to get on the ballot of more than 3 states?
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  173. She is a nitwit. Completely incompetent.
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  174.  @madpuppy1000  exactly.
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  175.  @tuckerbugeater  evolution is a fact of life. It's mechanisms have nothing to do with how we choose to construct an economy or political system. Conflating the two is scientifically unsound and has led to some very bad results like, oh let's see, the Holocaust. Cultural hierarchies are created deliberately and Marxist/Leninist theory recognizes this. Your comment sounds suspiciously like that popular leader of unscientific double-speak, Jordan Peterson's idiotic lobster theory.
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  176. I'd like to see u.s. companies compete in the same way domestically as they do overseas. Apple could hire mercs to firebomb Microsoft and vice versa. It would be awesome.
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  177. My mother's family was Dutch, living in Indonesia during Dutch colonialism. But her family was part of the working poor employed by the foreign conglomerates. The early childhood stories she told me we're not of clashes with Indonesians but of begging for credit at the grocery store. Her parents and four brothers became civilian POWs of the Japanese during the war and both her parents died there of dysentery. The Japanese were not overtly cruel to children, so she and her siblings were alive when Australian troops liberated her camp. Three of her brothers married Indonesians, my aunts Mies, Winnie, and Nini. I admit I have been a little jealous of how good looking my cousins are. ✌️
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  178.  @deborahkrol6152  I think it is caused by the greed of those are the top of society. Bigotry and fear are just tools they use to control the rest of us.
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  179. Most Germans oppose war. This video said as much.
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  180. Isn't that land owned by private interests? ​ @AtlantaBill 
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  181. Guess why there is so much available space in the Sinai desert..
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  182. Its a disgrace and why I cannot support any u.s. politician that uncritically supports this - I'm talking to you Doug Fetterman and Marianne Williamson.
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  183.  @qwertyuiopzxcvbnm9890  when has the left been in charge?
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  184.  @andrewwotherspoona5722  They just need to engage in mutually beneficial trade and development and stop using trade barriers to transfer more wealth upwards from their own populations.
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  185. It would be fun to do an in depth analysis of the gdp calculation and how misleading it is. Also unemployment calculations.
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  186. I feel like the neocons told him to chill in Florida while they ramp up the next coup. They thought he could win outright and it was close.
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  187. These psychos are going to kill us all. Ofc if Russia was attacking Germany, it would be because NATO already attacked Russia. So ww3 would already be underway.
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  188.  @ttrons2  lol I hadn't heard of progressive conservatives. We have maga communism. 🤣🤣🤣
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  189. Germany is America's biggest economic "ally." The u.s. doesn't tolerate competition.
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  190. Turns out all those military bases don't produce anything except pollution and death. ☠️
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  191. What a strange, irrelevant comment.
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  192.  @aliciaczechowski3281  Congress is literally an echo chamber 🤣
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  193.  @wrongchannel2780  no. They are complicit. Globalists don't care which labor force they crush in pursuit of profits. They will happily relocate to the u.s. or, the smarter ones, to Asia.
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  194.  @kooisengchng5283  the elite will live anywhere they can have money and power. That's betrayal, not stupidity.
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  195.  @Elisa-mg3rc  well we did blow it up or it was done under our direction. Ofc Ukraine doesn't have a democracy so that's a non starter. Even if they had a democracy, the u.s. couldn't care less about such a thing.
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  196.  @rickydee5863  👍
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  197. The u.s. is an international terrorist organization.
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  198. ​@SGN30keep that debunked bullshit to yourself. There is literally zero evidence of it, despite the west making up stories for years.
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  199. Yes. It is just another upward transfer of wealth.​ @willengel2458 
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  200.  @therealdeal2163  wasn't aware. Not surprised though.
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  201. ​ @kateoneal4215  yes it is for all their smugnorant friends
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  202. ​ @4imagesmore how to say you don't know what socialism and Marxism are.
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  203. Maybe you should rethink that, as the world's largest and fastest growing economy is socialist.
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  204. Where?
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  205. How ironic that our government claims to question the Palestinian authorities statements despite their demonstrated accuracy over the years, while uncritically accepting statements from the Israeli government, which has been repeatedly shown to have lied about every important event in recent memory.
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  206. Well, I can't speak for Ben. I can't even be sure that he does in fact "hate Israel." But if he does , it might be because Israel is an artificially created, illegitimate western colonial project based on an abhorrent mix of greed and racism. Not surprisingly, it has become fully fascistic, practicing terrorism, land theft, human rights violations, and various forms of brutal suppression of the indigenous Palestinians on its path to the genocide happening now. All this from an apartheid ethno state that has no reason, let alone right, to exist. But I'm just guessing here.
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  207.  @ronrice1931  I'm what, an evil speech?
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  208. Parsing the lies of u.s. officials has become a full time job for us all. If we fail, we will die.
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  209. They unsubbed me from this, my favorite channel. Disgusting
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  210. As a measurement of real economic strength, GDP is a joke.
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  211. I don't think that happened. What's your evidence? The revolution in Iran was to remove a u.s. puppet installed after the overthrow of Mosaddegh, the democratically elected progressive leader.
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  212. Having been betrayed by the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines, perhaps Germany should relocate it's manufacturing to China.
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  213. I love this series and always appreciate the insightful comments of canine companions of the speakers. 🐶
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  214. US Mafia bosses threatening judges to prevent legal process
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  215. No it's not. The Soviet Union's end was engineered by a gang of greedy men by unlawful means, not by an organic collapse.
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  216. Brilliant analysis by Radhika and Michael
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  217.  @OrwellsHousecat  wrong. Ben's a socialist.
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  218. Biden has very little to do with a u.s. foreign policy on a trajectory unchanged in 40 years.
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  219. He was an Englishman living in India
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  220. Americans don't know what or where the ICC is.
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  221. European leaders pretending to be surprised and angry when their propagandized people have woken to the fact they've been lied to for 9 months. Only a child could have thought this was not inevitable. These "leaders" are either complicit or criminally incompetent. They, and their u.s. counterparts, should be dragged through the streets.
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  222. ​ @CrueHead18  one of the most terrible people by any standard
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  223. Amlo has been watching your channel, Ben.
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  224. Since this video, he has also moved to make sweeping reforms to drug laws, including marijuana legalization following a visit to Colorado which will greatly benefit local farmers, and unravel the terrible effects of the us. "War on Drugs."
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  225. Caitlin Johnstone said the problem with western values is that the West doesn't value them.
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  226. Yes. War on terror is just cover for imperialism.
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  227. Malthus was fundamentally wrong.
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  228. Ben's reporting is so rational and refreshing.
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  229. Imo he runs cover for racists, right wingers, and anti-trans bigots.
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  230. ​ @tymanung6382  an empire is by definition not democratic because the majority living under it do not have a voice in its government. It is not democracy but authoritarianism that imposes the will of the few on the many.
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  231. This was very informative. Thank you, Ben.
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  232. U.s. imperialism is a deadly plague.
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  233. Your obnoxious ad hominem somehow proves the US empire is not in decline? ​ @williamhauser7156 
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  234. Pompeo and Barrasso proud of sanctioning countries for engaging in trade. Disgusting liars.
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  235. The wilfully ignorant understand only one thing.
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  236. 87% of the world has voiced it's opposition to the western empire
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