Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Would You Start World War III To Save Ukraine?" video.

  1. Yeah Peter Zeihan has EXPLAINED several times that Putin wont stop at Ukraine. Its got to do with certain historical strategic locations that the Russians like to control for security reasons. Ukraine isn't one of those locations but its on the way to 2 of them in Poland and Romania.
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  2. Yeah I would agree but then what would you say about America? Because America since the end of WW2 repeatedly overthrown democratically elected governments and replaced them with dictatorships when those governments wouldn't do EXACTLY what America wanted. Here's 4 examples - Iran, Guatemala, Chile and Indonesia. FYI - I'm Australian. I love America. I went to college there on a sports scholarship, but American's are very badly informed on what some of America's 3 Letter agencies have done. Usually at the request of American business interests. Its something a lot more Americans need to ACCEPT and start dealing with. Most people around the world have no problems with the American people or their culture. Hey my team the 49ers is in the Superbowl this Sunday. BUT when it comes to what America does to other countries the American people are badly informed. You know how many Americans have this innate (almost insane) mis-trust of the US Government? Simple question -> How do you think the rest of us feel? Because we often wonder - who controls the CIA? Is it the US Government or the American billionaires? Don't forget George H. Bush was not only an oil tycoon but also head of the CIA at one point.
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  3. Yeah Peter Zeihan has EXPLAINED that several times. Its got to do with certain historical strategic locations that the Russians like to control for security reasons. Ukraine isn't one of those locations but its on the way to 2 of them in Poland and Romania.
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  4. ​ @justadbeer  Your right to some extent. What your forgetting is that America made the rest of the world dependant on it and in particular security but it wasn't the only thing. You should go and listen to Peter Zeihan who's a geopolitical strategist. I don't agree with all that he says particularly when he talks technology, but then I'm an engineer. People like yourself are quite right. The rest of us all run to America when there's a problem. But then a lot of those problems were in part caused by various American entities in the first place. Lost in the disaster of Ukraine are a string of broken promises that America made to Russia after the fall of the Soviet System. Then there's all the economic interference that Americans advised Russia on that lead to the rise of the Russian Oligarchs. I recently heard Jeffrey Sachs, whining about how the Russians didn't listen to their advice. BS - the Russians are in the mess they are in because they DID LISTEN to American advisors who told them to sell of all their state assets. What your also forgetting is that BEFORE WW2 was even over there was the Breton Woods conference. Where America with its staggering gold reserve basically forced the rest of us to accept the US Dollar as the future worlds reserve currency. Along with that (as Peter Zeihan points out) American basically promised the rest of us it would keep international trade safe. With that we all agreed to be the cannon fodder between American capitalism and Soviet Communism. Peter even points out that China would never have had the chance for its economic growth without America keeping the world's trade routes safe and open. So there's been a lot of benefits and costs to all of us. The bug in that whole system is that certain American's learned how to take advantage of the system and these people are now a problem for ALL OF US. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I'm a very rare person in that I'm a huge fan of the US Constitution. I often say that I believe its one of the greatest achievements in human history AND I REALLY DO BELIEVE THAT. However the US Constitution is not perfect and the institutions it birthed are now failing. Without doubt SCOTUS is one of the most important institutions in the world and its been so badly corrupted that its almost non-functional and that has some incredibly serious consequences. No matter what the rest of us feel about any particular American or the nation, American is still 1/4 of the world's economy and almost all international trade is reliant on the US Dollar. Either that trade is done in $US or the transactions are done via banks that operate in $US. That's what it is to be the World's reserve currency AND NONE OF US ASKED FOR IT - we inherited it and a dysfunctional America is a nightmare. So you might think that Russia is the topic but in fact America is ALWAYS the topic. America wanted to be number 1. Well you got there and with that comes responsibility and if America has an Achilles heel its responsibility. None us are really good at it, but we aren't the World's reserve currency. Our Economists don't trapse around re-organising other countries. Our agencies don't sneak in and overthrow governments so our companies can come in and strip those nations. Most of all we don't have an arsenal of nuclear weapons to wave at people like its a giant middle finger. Apologies for the long rant.
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  5.  @ronschafer4533  Short, blunt and also sadly true.
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  6.  @justadbeer  If you look through the comments you'll find there are a lot of Australians and others watching people like Thom. I don't think Americans really get how scared we are of an American collapse and I don't just mean financial. Trump has tapped into a staggering amount of anger and frustration that IS LEGITIMATE. Richard Wolff who's a Marxist economist had this great comment about West Virginia in one of the Michael Brooks tributes (panel 3 just before 35mins). He points out how much the Dems & GOP have screwed those people. Trump gave them an alternative to being screwed yet again. I keep pointing out to Americans there's Congressional Budget Office report Bernie Sanders had updated on Family Wealth 1989-2019. If you just look at the first graph it shows how screwed 50% of America really is. Even when the economy has been better they haven't been better. The Top 10% have got it better the middle 40% have had it reasonable but the bottom 50% have been screwed and screwed and screwed. I've checked what I can of Australian data and its the same basic story. It should be because many of our top economists went to Harvard, Yale,.... etc. Trump and people like him aren't the problem. They're symptoms of a much larger economic issue. Thom is one of the very few with even 1/2 a grasp of it. He understands what the Neoliberals have done. What he might not realise is that they have done it across the entire Western World. But here's the issue. If Australia collapses, then so what? We won't take the world down with us. Neither will many other countries. BUT if America collapses we all go down. Global trade relies on the US dollar because back in 1944 at Breton Woods we all agree it would be the World's reserve currency. So if the US dollar breaks the worlds economy breaks. We can't afford 4 more years of either Biden or Trump, but especially Trump. I can give legitimate security and financial security reasons to at least 100 countries to give him a Chitown love tap. FYI - I went to college at U. of Illinois so I know what a Chitown love tap is. And I do mean that we really can't have Trump 2.0.
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