Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "World Affairs In Context" channel.

  1. The Australian gas sales to Europe are bankrupting our country because we don't have reserves and we pay the gas companies to extract our gas to then sell it. Gas prices in Europe going up, also means they go up in Australia. As our government pursues this ridiculous "net zero" agenda and shuts down coal power stations to do it, our electricity is increasing dependent on LNG.
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  2. They aren't full, they're just putting a pause on membership while they figure out some ground rules. You don't want too many voices in the negotiations or nothing will get done. Once they've settled some things, memberships will open again and the partner nations will have an opportunity to immediately be elevated to membership.
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  3. Corporate feudalism.
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  4. This is happening in every westernised country that fell for wokeism (socialism), and importantly is NOT happening to those westernised countries that didn't fall for it. That isn't a coincidence. Remember, the Bolsheviks had the rubble at over 1000% inflation on purpose for decades while they tried to make a moneyless society. Cuba did the same. Mao did the same. Venezuela did the same. It's part of the plan of socialism. What you get in practice is a massive transfer of wealth from the 99% to the 1%. Of course the elites are on board, they're the ones benefiting, and they want corporate feudalism.
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  5. No it doesn't. That's not what BRICS is.
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  6. As an Australian I wish we would join BRICS, but I know that's unrealistic. Still, we'd have a rebound on the aussie dollar if it was delinked from the greenback .
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  7. Australia, the 2nd largest LNG exporter globally always gets forgotten when talk of these sanctions hurting countries is discussed. Australia is the ONLY exporting country in the world without national reserve price structures, and LNG is the backbone of Australian energy. when EU prices go crazy, those prices glow directly to Australia too. Australia is a major strategic defence partner for both Europe and Yankville in the pacific. It's home to AUKUS and the country giving Yankville scramjets capable of bringing yankvillian supersonics up to task with China. The only country in the world capable of doing that. But when you push sanctions like these you cripple a key military partner against China and take them off the board. It also reduces the ability for Australian researchers to create these technologies that Yankville rely on. That puts global stability at risk and increases the likelihood of a hot war with China. It also pushes domestic sentiment in Australia against Yankville, and towards a security pact with China who are Australia's largest trading partner. This issue needs to get as much discussion time as the impacts on the EU.
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