Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "" video.

The Russians of course planned how to avoid the effects of sanctions long before their plans for Ukraine became visible. Russia has a war chest of around 500 billion dollars all safely tucked away and rude letters from Western bank managers will be tossed aside with a scornful laugh.
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@prout7569 Nice try. Have you started on Matt the Greek yet? I do wish you would.
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The trouble is we have grown so used to judging ourselves by how nice we are that we have lost sight of those things which have enabled us to be nice in the first place. America should give refuge to all Ukrainians who ask for it, since this tragedy is almost entirely that country's fault. We're running out of room and thousands of Hong Kong Chinese are on their way, to whom we do owe an historical responsibility. Welcoming Ukrainian refugees might make you feel all warm and fluffy inside. but that's about it in terms of what future generations may come to think of you. They're going to have lots of other stuff to worry about.
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@rocketscience4516 Then you could feel all big and manly in that exiting fascist way as well as all warm and fluffy inside.
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@rocketscience4516 The people you mention were, of course, entirely unmotivated by anything resembling self-interest. What you have to realise is that our very ability to offer succour to the world's refugees is due to the fact that our forefathers created a rich and powerful country through the exercise of force. We no longer have the resources to maintain our position in the world and those resources are diminished with every refugee we welcome. This is very sad, but that's the way it is. We simply didn't plan for the increase in population resulting from mass immigration. Phil suggests that future generations will look back on any disinclination to welcome refugees with shame. This may be true. It is just as likely though that future generations, cold and hungry and under the yoke of some foreign power, will look back and curse us for our misplaced generosity.
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@johnrocks5678 Will the UK offering sanctuary to Ukrainian refugees rectify anything though? It would really just be a gesture.
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@rocketscience4516 At least you are making my departure voluntary now instead of wanting to drag me off by force. That's a step in the right direction! Idealism and pragmatism are often in conflict. The point I am desperately trying to make is that the former is generally a luxury created by the considered exercise of the latter.
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@Yeknodathon You still haven't read the Johns Hopkins meta-study have you? Or the latest research on Ivermectin from Sweden and Hong Kong. My tinfoil hat is now very fashionable. What were once dubbed conspiracy theories are now emerging as just conspiracies. You must hurry to catch up.
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@rocketscience4516 Seems so.
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@johnrocks5678 True enough. But why should everyone be crawling over each other to supply this comfort? This tragedy is America's fault and America should be supplying redress. A British person's sole reason for doing so must be the sense of self-gratification it might provide. If that's what rocks your boat why not adopt a few starving children from the Third World. There are plenty of those about.
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@Yeknodathon Seems you've already shut the door on quite a lot of things - including the ability to think for yourself. No wonder you scorn it.
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@rocketscience4516 It's a three-bedroomed cottage actually. Used to be the gatehouse but I let the main house out to a drug rehab charity. If your Ukrainian is a junkie they might find a place for him.
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@fredplat467 Confirmed by facts and history. Just try checking. Any errors will be corrected, I promise.
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@johnrocks5678 A certain amount pf placing the blame is rather necessary, don't you think?
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@Yeknodathon I'm staying where I am mate. An Englishman's home is his castle and I've even got the crenellations.
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@fredplat467 I'm not talking about crumbling under debts as such, merely the effects of suddenly increased population. The UK's population has increased more through immigration than birth in recent years and this simply hasn't been planned for. Of course a few thousand Ukrainians won't make much difference as such, but we have to put a stop to the idea that the UK is a natural destination for refugees. The Ukrainians are America's problem and responsibility, and the EU's to some extent. As to past history, it is generally true that movements of large numbers of homeless populations are a feature in the decline of Empires. A recent example would be the partition of the Indian sub-continent. What we are seeing now is the beginning of the collapse of the American Empire and this is already having an effect on the movements of large numbers of poor people, particularly from places like Haiti and South America. Unless Russia is stopped now the phenomenon will spread to Europe. It is very doubtful that he can be stopped through force of arms, so concessions are the only answer. If these are made there is every chance that Ukraine will be swiftly stabilised and the vast majority of refugees will be able to return in safety.
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@Yeknodathon I can't see him. Has he gone to one of the other cottages on the estate by any chance?
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@Yeknodathon That's out of the question with my bad leg.
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@rocketscience4516 Perhaps you have stayed in my ancestral hall then. What a thought! You mention green pens. Do you know I have actually received letters written in green ink? They are not a myth.
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@Yeknodathon I've told you. I'm staying put. I'm cleaning my 12 bore even as we speak.
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@Yeknodathon Even that is out of the question at the moment. Things usually improve after a week or so of bed rest and healthy doses of malt and painkillers, but even then I will be disinclined to depart' I'm going up on the roof now to check my lines of fire. I warn you and your Uber driver that I'm a very good shot, especially when I'm stoned.
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@fredplat467 There us nothing to correct. As far as figures are concerned cast your mind back to 2013 when the UK welcomed immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria. Around 13,000 were anticipated. There are now close on half a million of them. The same will happen if we allow unfettered Ukrainian immigration. Is this OK? Some may think so. I do not. Ukrainians certainly wouldn't if the boot was on the other foot. Many of them are fiercely nationalistic to the point of Nazism. As to Britain's responsibilities vis a vis the Empire we have done all that can humanly be expected of us. British Asians are to be seen everywhere and we will dutifully accommodate British Hong Kong Chinese when the need arises. The UK is not part of Europe. The term is a mere geographical convenience and does not describe a social of political entity.
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@rocketscience4516 In fact not. I was a newspaper editor in an earlier incarnation and my paper covered an area where the NF was just taking off. My critical editorials aroused several green-ink letters addressed to "The Snake With The Pen." Not much changes
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@rocketscience4516 In fact I actually met their author and I'm pretty sure he wasn't an hallucination. A delegation of NF supporters turned up at my office and we had a bit of a ding dong about this and that. He was a smallish bloke in his sixties, ex noncomm in the artillery as I recall. (I told you I don't live in the Old Hall but in the gatehouse. It does have crenellations though.)
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@rocketscience4516 You're really starting to get me worried now! I don't recall the lion incident though.
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@fredplat467 That was really quite poetic. Well done.
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