Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Piers Morgan vs John Mearsheimer | On Putin, Israel-Hamas And More" video.

  1. ​ @jjamo1225  You need to put a fire extinguisher emoji on the end of those sorts of comments or you risk frying computer chips from the burn.
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  2. That's a great observation and its indicative of the era we now live in which I'd call Selective Reality. For most of human history reality has NOT been selective the one major exception being religion, BUT NOW in this time period we can select which reality we like because we not only have freedom to believe whatever we like but there's people who will supply whatever SELECTIVE facts we want to reinforce our beliefs. There's even parts to what John Mearsheimer says which are SELECTIVE. He says Putin does not want to re-create the Soviet Empire and YES I know Putin's famous quote: "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."BUT Mearsheimer is also SELECTIVELY IGNORING the fact Putin has demanded being able to write the security policies for all the nations around Russia's borders. That's 18 or so countries with a combined population of almost 280 million and they would have NO SAY in their security if Putin get's his way. It would be dictated to them by Moscow. So I would partially agree with Mearsheimer that Putin is NOT trying to re-create the Soviet Empire, but that does NOT rule out that he is trying to gain control over a massive slab of the former Soviet Empire. There are people who'd say America does similar via NATO and other treaties AND I WOULD AGREE. I'm Australian and I just had someone this weekend tell me that hidden in the depths of the AUKUS treaty is that America gets to decide or have veto control over our Uranium production and sales. I haven't found confirmation of this, but it sounds typical of Australian government behavior. In case you didn't know we not only have the largest Uranium reserves in the world but 1 of our mines (Olympic Dam) has over 30% of all the known Uranium on the planet. So giving America control or veto power over Australia's Uranium is pretty massive and the Australian people have (so far) had NO SAY in it.
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