Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

  1. Looks like we're entering an interesting period over the next 20-30 years. Lots of comments here focus on who's to blame, but that is not a productive viewpoint. More important is to consider who will, or should, do what over these next decades. As someone from the West, I would not want the world to be dominated by authoritarian, autocratic countries. I suppose I'd be fine with a country like India, which has a form of democracy and individual rights, with that country dominating. Whatever the situation, I'm not convinced that the West is in decline. We're slowing down, but I don't think we're declining.
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  2. "....wants to see Russia weakened. Over the weekend..." Probably an unintentional rhyme, but I love the sound of it: "Weakened over the weekend". It belongs in a poem somewhere.
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  3. Let's see if the military junta in Niger asks the US and France to leave. They haven't asked yet. If they ask, of course those countries should leave. Then we'll see 5 years from now if Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso are any better off than they are now. I'm skeptical. None of these regimes appear to be particularly pro-development, pro-business, pro-investment. I hope I'm wrong about that.
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  4. "Developing the political consciousness". Wouldn't it make more sense to develop the economy, infrastructure, agriculture, trade?
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  5.  @jirachi-wishmaker9242  It was only meant as a hypothetical.
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  6.  @p3u3g3poultree7  Well, I'm not from the US, so I can't say for sure, but the friends I have in America seem to be quite content.
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  7.  @p3u3g3poultree7  So where do you live now? Do you like it there?
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  8.  @p3u3g3poultree7  Well, there's still Switzerland. At least as beautiful scenery as Ireland. And better cheese.
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  9. First, they're enslaved by France in Haiti and forced to work in the sugarcane fields. Then, they have an uprising and a revolution and as one of the first colonies in the western hemisphere, they gain independence. After 200 years of independence, they now work under slave-like conditions in sugar plantations again. I normally don't believe in the phrase 'history repeats itself', but in this case it seems to be true.
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  10.  @wilber2k06  That is unrelated to my comment.
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