Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "The Icarus Project" channel.

@mweskamppp Same here. I have no issues with India essentially plundering Russian oil and making a killing off it while Russia gets very little out of the transaction.
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@ArawnOfAnnwn Your numbers are horribly off. Most of it is wishful thinking and not the actual hard data.
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@ArawnOfAnnwn Source for your claims? Where is your data to back up what you say? Yet again you are making extraordinary declarations which require extraordinary evidence (Sagan Standard). All I am hearing from you is NOT independent data but regurgitated Kremlin arguments.
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@MegaBanne Then what DID it have to do with? And don't try pushing the "de-Nazification" or "NATO expansion" arguments because both have been so completely discredited that even the Chinese don't believe those claims.
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@Chadmlad Yeah, as an American I wish we would cut our losses with the Imams of Pakistan so as to improve our standing with the Rajahs of India. Our shared history as colonies of the Crown and the desire for decolonization and local self-determination of populations makes us natural allies. But so long as the US stays in bed with backstabbing and double-dealing Islamabad, US-Indian relations will remain poisoned.
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That is a bit of a stretch. Russia was going to find a way to sanction bust by laundering through the central Asian nations or China. This just provides an easy out that is less profitable.
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Closer? You do realize that Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania share a border with Russia and has done so since joining in 2004? Parroting Kremlin talking points only proves your ignorance.
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@Bond047 And yet the defense contracts that Russia has violated with India tell a much different story. You can lie to yourself, but India knows how to smile and keep a pleasant face while internally fuming and raging. They call it "face".
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@roronoazoro87118 You didn't even bother to read what I posted, did you? I applaud and cheer India for taking Russia to the cleaners.
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She is Jamaican. Her claims to Indian heritage are weak at best. And no, half-casts are NOT Brahmin. Not even close.
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Me thinks they may try to dump the Rupees on their Central Asian Partners or North Korea. Not much better, but then that still benefits India.
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@olafsigursons BRICS nations are a basket case. Only India is the strong horse and in large part because they have been cleaning up the corruption.
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@ArawnOfAnnwn It is clear you are a mouthpiece of the kremlin because you regurgitate their disproven propaganda talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog. When even the Indians don't believe your claims, you have lost the plot.
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@aj9969 Nice strawman argument. This isn't the 1960s. And the US removed the nuclear missiles from Turkey in response to the Cuban missile crisis. Your selective cherry picking of information shows your intellectual dishonesty.
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@aj9969 Lots of bloviation but little in the way of substance. For one, NATO was not a threat to Russia when Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia joined in 2004. That alone completely disproves your claims. Also, Joe Bite-me is hardly the paragon of virtue and honesty. His son was on the board of Burisma after all and was "getting a cut for the big guy". Instead of regurgitating Kremlin talking point on cue like Pavlov's dog, how about you actually look at the situation objectively and in full context?
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Yeah, I love pointing out how irate the Indians are over the Kuznetsov-class carrier that Russia built for India.
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I think most folks in the west don't really care if India is ripping off Russia that the pump and then turning around and selling the refined oil products to them. As long as it is India making the profits while Russia get little to nothing, then it is victory enough.
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@Bond047 Not if the Russians continue to disappoint the Russians. Unlike the US, the Indians have a long memory and WILL remember how the Russians screwed them on their arms deals, particularly the defective aircraft carrier.
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I would not with that on the Rajahs. They deserve better than Russia or India. Now if only the US would dump the Imams of Pakistan in favor of the Rajahs.
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@Damien1_1 "Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas". You will find that the Russians will choose the Chinese communists over India in EVERY dispute. Pick your friends wisely, because the US has chosen so terrible ones in the past. Don't make our blunders.
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I agree. Emancipate Yakutia!
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OPEC isn't as powerful as you make them out. For all of their grandstanding over the oil cap, the actions taken by OPEC to "cut production" didn't actually move the needle because most of them were not even meeting those quotas to begin with.
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OPEC isn't don't a damn thing to help Russia. That agreement to cut production? They weren't even making their quotas! The new figures the agreed to were simply a reflection of what they were actually producing. There was no actual reduction.
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@ZamraHh-y3t The Rajahs have been developing their own domestic defense industry and compared to Russia's it is much more reliable. As far as China goes, their little border clashed with India have proven that they don't even have the military discipline to attempt what Russia tried to do in Ukraine.
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I tend to agree with that. As an American, I am irritated that the US government continues to stay in bed with the back-stabbing and double dealing Pakistanis. I would gladly dump the Imams of Islamabad for the Rajahs of Mumbai and New Delhi.
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@jettrd_utilitychnl4230 BRICS is a complete joke. India is the only real strong horse of the group. China is a house of cards about to implode as Evergrande has revealed. Brazil was on its way to being a regional economic power until they voted in the neo-communist. Now they are going back to their basket case economic polices that hamstrung them for decades. South Africa is not, never has, and is unlikely to ever be even a regional player in Africa. They take the regressive economic ideas of Brazil and double down on them. The idea that BRICS will ever compete with the Euro-American economic bloc is just a wet dream of communists and rabid anti-colonialists who have nothing viable to offer. ASEAN has more credibility than BRICS.
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One of those infamous "Russian Colds". They are known to have a 100% fatality rate.
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@sharwama992 And what is wrong with a nation concerned with its own national interests? The problem with globalists is that they don't understand that natural allies are people whose national interests coincide. When you have common, or at least parallel goals that don't directly conflict, it can make for a VERY strong friendship. That is how the US and the UK or France and the UK were able to put their past animosity aside.
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@KPsTboy As opposed to the blood diamonds that regularly come out of Africa? Or the blood cobalt used in your electric vehicle? Spare us your moral outrage.
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@ahamasmiarinm "Figures don't lie, but liars figure" -Mark Twain. You are taking those numbers completely out of context. For one, GDP takes into account government spending which is NOT creating anything but taking from one to give to another. China famously does that to artificially juice up its own GDP numbers Secondly, the "revenues" you are using for Russia are not taking into consideration both inflation and the collapse in value of the Rubble. The fact that India is forcing the Russians to accept the Rupee instead of paying in Rubbles means that those revenues numbers are complete garbage.
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@ahamasmiarinm No, it is NEVER out of place to use a quote, especially as Twain despite being an author was also a commentator on the absurdities of American politics, if you bothered that actually learn about the man. Your contempt for him only discredits yourself. And I DID address the Rubble issue if you actually bothered to read instead of just skim. The conversion rate has plummeted, especially as you compare the rubble to gold conversion rate. So yes, your numbers absolutely can be discounted out of hand. And while yes, the Russians can back out of the deal with India, they have nowhere else to go. China? They are not going to risk their connection to the global market for an economy smaller than Italy. North Korea? Not even a viable replacement.
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I will follow up by pointing out that if a Brahmin man had a child with a Dalit woman, the child would be Dalit. Likewise, if a Dalit man had a child with a Brahmin woman (highly unlikely as the woman would at best be disowned by her family if not outright killed), the child would still be Dalit. In effect, bi-racial children in India end up existing in an outsider condition similar to how half-gaijin children of Japanese did until the abolishment of their caste system.
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