Comments by "" (@manofsan) on "CaspianReport" channel.

  1. Shirwan, your analysis and retelling of the story is completely false and propagandist. I have totally lost faith in your objectivity and professionalism. You are telling the story from a Pakistani point of view, literally depending on false information provided by Pakistan. Your commentary was complete propaganda. Jinnah was not motivated by Junagadh or Hyderabad - the conflict over Hyderabad only broke out after after the Kashmir conflict did, and was resolved after the Kashmir ceasefire. Furthermore, the "Muslim nobleman" ruling Hyderabad had already started massacring many Hindus using his Razakar army. The Kashmir issue is driven by the Durand Line (so-called Afghan-Pak "border"). During the period of British rule, they had conquered part of the Pashtun lands through imperial war, and these conquered areas were constantly rebelling against British control. After independence and partition, the new state of Pakistan inherited those Pashtun lands and their ethnic nationalist unrest. When Kashmir decided to go the route of becoming an independent state, Pakistan leader Jinnah was terrified that the Pashtuns would quickly follow suit and pursue independence for themselves, and so he decided to kill 2 birds with one stone by despatching the Pashtun tribal militias to attack Kashmir, on the pretext that "Islam was in danger". It's important to understand that the decision by Kashmir to go the route of being an independent state was undertaken by mutual agreement between "Hindu nobleman" Maharaja Hari Singh and Muslim political leader Sheikh Abdullah. After Pakistan invaded Kashmir using the Pashtun militias (forerunners of today's Taliban), both the "Hindu nobleman" Hari Singh and Sheikh Abdullah signed the Instrument of Accession to India - both of them, not one of them. India has held numerous elections in Kashmir over the decades, without incident or problems. It's only once the US began backing Pakistan closely during the Afghan War against the Soviets, while turning a blind eye as Pakistan nuclearized itself, that Pakistan became bold enough to pursue an intense insurgency strategy against India. Pakistan backed insurgency not only inside Kashmir but also in other parts of India, including the Indian state of Punjab which it destabilized first before doing the same in Kashmir. Once again, to repeat - the root of all of Pakistan's conflicts with neighbors lies in the Durand Line (so-called Afghan-Pak "border") and its unsustainability. Pakistan equally pursues a policy of destabilization and insurgency in Afghanistan, just as it does in India. Both of these insurgency wars in Afghanistan and Indian Kashmir are the legacy of US support to Pakistan during the 1980s for the purpose of bleeding and defeating the Soviet Union.
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  2. China: everyone/everything is edible to me - now get in my belly!
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  3. The sand melange? The sand must flow?
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  4. Iran may be bigger than Israel, but it has no patron of its own. They also think too primitively, first about religion, then about military power - they have no effective economic strategy or vision. They could have easily hooked up with China and Turkey for OneBeltOneRoad, but Iranian leaders are too blinkered and narrow-minded. Iran's worst enemy is themselves.
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  5. Dear CaspianReport, I am a Nigerian Prince with a lot of money invested into Pakistan's major oil discovery. Unfortunately, I am in need of cash, as my investments are not liquid. If you could please kindly send me some money, I promise to repay you many times over, as my Pakistani oil profits come flooding in.
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  6. Pakistan was created based on communalism and even has sectarian provisions in its constitution like declaring Ahmadiyas non-Muslims. Pakistan is so sectarian and communal that they regularly blow up Shia and Sufi Muslims praying at their mosques. Pakistanis can't even tolerate fellow Muslims let alone non-Muslim minorities -- that's how sectarian/communal they are. And then they try to point fingers at others -- what a farce!
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  7.  @Khan-ot4ny  you sound like some brainwashed fanatic who only knows how to spit bile. India is seen by the world as a more rational international actor that seeks coexistence and development -- unlike your military-run banana republic, Pakistan.
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  8. Of course a Pakistani will praise Shirwan's biased "report" - because it totally parrots the Pakistani viewpoint, in a completely slanted way, without consideration for key facts!
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  9. Post-Brexit UK geopolitics would be interesting.
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  10. The only possible silver lining is that all the research into these advanced hypersonic propulsion technologies might possibly lead to a new generation of aerospace vehicles which can enable rapid intercontinental transit, and maybe even facilitate launch vehicles traveling from Earth to orbit.
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  11. If Iran wasn't prepared to join the fight, it would have never initiated this 10/7 attack on Israel in the first place. Iran is behaving like it's already received guarantees from stronger powers. :face-purple-wide-eyes:
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  12. I can imagine that dictatorships and police states would like automated vehicles to be in communication with a central control system at all times. Then people's movement can be more efficiently monitored, and restricted if necessary.
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  13.  @Khan-ot4ny  you're bragging about China -- are you Chinese or Pakistani? Maybe you should first learn about what China does to Uighurs.
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  14. Whoa, whoa, whoa there, Shirvan of Caspian Report! How do we really know that some of these specifics happened? How do we really know that "members of the mob" infiltrated the armies of Ali and Aisha to conspiratorially cause chaos and mayhem? To me, this sounds like some kind of apologist window-dressing, to canonize and exculpate the beloved Ali and Aisha, to make them sound like they could do no wrong - when in fact their own negligence and petty egos may have directly caused the outbreak of war. The "mob" may be some classic scapegoat conveniently erected to make Ali and Aisha both look perfectly innocent. In other words, you seem to be telling the story in a very intimate first-person way, as if you had traveled back in time to originally witness the events firsthand. How/why should I trust your narrative? What do you know that everybody else doesn't?
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  15. India is simply responding to Pakistan's relentless provocation - as anyone will, when goaded enough. Pakistan suffers from irredentism.
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  16. When I see the street agitation in Thailand calling for constitutional changes, it seems like China would have an interest in driving those constitutional changes to facilitate its dominance over the politics and policies of Thailand. In particular, China is very interested in building the Kra canal to allow its ships to traverse through the Thai peninsula -- including its naval ships, of course. This could allow them to directly cross into the Andaman Sea, bypassing the Straits of Malacca and the Andaman & Nicobar archipelago.
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  17.  Krishnkant Singh  do you understand that China does not see us as a potential partner, but as inferiors who need to be shown their place, in order for us to become more obedient supplicants to them?
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  18. I don't agree in the use of the words "irrational" and "xenophobia" here. Supporting one's own national sovereignty is neither "irrational" nor "xenophobic". Countries should be in control of their own national policies, and not have them dictated by others or by opportunistic events.
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  19. Oh, the training camps are in northern Pakistan where the US can't hit them - like Haqqania - and of course all of Southern Afghanistan is one big training field for them. But certainly India has recently attacked Pakistani training camps in POK using satellites to precisely coordinate surgical strikes. But clearly, as the numerous terror attacks inside Pakistan have shown, Pakistan's intense cultivation of terrorist movements have even put Pakistan itself at risk. So you don't need to take my word for it - just look at all the suicide bombings in Pakistan to recognize that they've turned their own soil into a house of terror.
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  20. On the contrary, BJP has earned the confidence of the people with its track record against corruption. I don't know what highground a Pakistani would hope to take in giving lectures on corruption - your Nawaz Sharif and your Zardari have all been upto their eyeballs in corruption, and so has your army which is full of profiteers.
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  21. Hah - and the US doesn't re-draw rules?
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  22. Andaman & Nicobar Islands are our Gibraltar
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  23.  @Spectification  India is not interested in interfering with ordinary shipping -- it's China's navy that India has concerns about, since it would be used to project force against India.
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  24. ​ @Sergey Bebenin - Ukraine was committing human rights atrocities against civilians -- bombarding civilian areas with shells and missiles. Ukrainian military incorporated hardline ethno-fascist groups into its ranks, and sent them to fight in ethnic enclaves where they killed ethnic Russian civilians. Ukraine has never been an homogeonous land, and those ethnic Russians were native to the soil, and were being ethnically cleansed by the fascists.
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  25. There's no relationship between Kashmir and Palestine - other than the fact that Islamist terrorists seek to exploit both conflicts to further their agenda. musicalman, your comments about Kashmir are rubbish - are you pretending that Islam is native to Kashmir and the oldest ethnicity there? Don't be ridiculous.
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  26. "We are now at war with 𝙾̶𝚌̶𝚎̶𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚒̶𝚊̶ Maphilindo"
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  27. Heck no - the Russians have gotten reassurances from China, which has more than ample demand for Russian energy supplies. Russia wants concessions on Ukraine, and China on Taiwan. So naturally they're both working together for mutual benefit.
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  28.  @udontknowme7798  As mentioned in the beginning, India has retaliatory strike capability, so China can't use a nuclear strike unless it wants to be hit back.
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  29. 2sunami Uhh, documented by whom? What was their objectivity? "Analyse" is a word - give us a transparent analysis, citing your sources and how you came about your interpretations. Otherwise, the "analysis" I'm hearing sounds a lot like political spin.
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  30. Shirvan, rather than showing a one-sided bias, if you really believe there's geographic determinism, then why not also explore the geographic determinism for the United States as well? By the same standard, a similar argument could be made that America's own geographic distance from the Eurasian continent compels it to become a Far Emperor constantly meddling in the affairs of these distant lands, under the pretext of defending "freedom", "liberty", etc which are in increasingly dwindling supply at home.
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  31.  @Spectification  India is a responsible international actor, and does not interfere with regular commercial shipping. As you point out, that would only attract the ire of the international community. However, China's naval expansionism is a different matter, and India is not alone in its concern about it.
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  32. China has a naval base which can be supported by this canal. This will enable China to deepen its claims on the South China Sea.
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  33. I think that because these are religious figures, there's a whole lot of incentive for the faithful to put spin on their actions, and make them more palatable - like a Hollywood movie. In real life, real history doesn't always have everyone behaving perfectly nobly, or being tragically misunderstood, etc.
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  34. Habiba, speaking of dividing people - what do you have to say about Pakistan's latest scheme to divide Gilgit-Baltistan away from Kashmir and make it Pakistan's fifth province? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7FPLjkXkAE2_fT.jpg Any opinion to share on it, or cat got your tongue? More Pakistani stuntsmanship, as usual.
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  35. I haven't heard of any man-portable anti-ship missiles, though. Fighting at sea is much harder to do for guerrillas, and they don't really have any place to hide.
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  36. China + North Korea + Cambodia that's all I can come up with
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  37. I still wish to congratulate you on your attention to such important issues, and liked the overall style of your presentation.
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  38. Debangsu Sarkar - India is a pluralistic democracy like America
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  39. Putin is an okay guy - he's no saint - but he's a patriot who's looking out for his country's national interests. It's worth saying that Russia is not the USSR, and is not exporting communist totalitarianism around the world. Communism is dead - Islamism is the only totalitarian ideology still vigorously trying to spread itself worldwide. That's why ISIS is still spreading and Taliban & AlQaeda are making a comeback in Afghanistan. Islamism is the real threat. After WW2 ended, it was important to discard the old threat of Nazism and wake up to the new threat of Communism, and now with the end of the Cold War, it's important to discard the old Moscow threat and wake up to the new threat of Islamism and Chinese expansionism. Huntington pointed out that China and Islam would partner together to oppose the Western world.
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  40. +Akin Khoo -- if China's puppet Pakistan nukes India, then India will nuke both Pakistan and China. We have the means to reduce PRC and its infrastructure to rubble. All of their infrastructure simply means they have more to lose.
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  41. ​ @Do you want to give me le kiss? - so no more Paris Climate Treaty? Does that suddenly get thrown out with this latest geopolitical event? Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel by far.
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  42. @Recovering_Californian US Democrats / Liberals who lose elections believe everything bad happens because of Russia.
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  43. Andaman & Nicobar Islands are our Gibraltar
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  44. Some idiot politicians and generals are talking about 'No Fly Zones' It's ridiculous play a game of chicken with a nuclear-armed power.
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  45.  @jeyaramsathees6128  - nothing has been renamed, just the artificial Article370 has been sidelined. Ladakhis are still overwhelmingly Buddhist, and have long wanted to be free of Srinagar's grip. Jammuites likewise don't want to be dominated by the Valley.
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  46.  @NKhaannn  - Entire Pakistan is collapsing. Desperately running with begging bowl trying to save themselves. In Pakistan, poor are fighting for food.
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  47. "Up the krieg without a paddle" 😬
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  48. As he goes into exile, Zelensky can hand over his T-shirt and cargo pants wardrobe to Syria's new guy
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  49. Justin doesn't want you to know, in case you're not okay with it. He and his party are more about ensuring their future interests, rather than yours.
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  50. +Zain YG -- it's the artificial name created by Pakjabis in Islamabad to lord over the Pashtuns.
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  51. +Habiba Azim, Modi has certainly made strides against corruption, and his demonetisation move has certainly caused heartburn for Pakistan's ISI, which loves to counterfeit Indian currency.
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  52. @ Zeeshan Niazi - you forgot Option 3 - run your economy responsibly instead of as an irresponsible military banana republic - and don't create the terrorists that provoke drone strikes and bombers in the first place (jihadi pseudo scholars will tell you Option 3 is against the tenets of the Koran)
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  53. Philippines asked America to withdraw from its bases there (Clark + Subic Bay)
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  54. Likewise, I also swear I've seen this whole thing before - take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bnQOyUeN4 Giant Loan Shark VS Insatiable Money-Sucker SyFy Channel puts out some very good documentaries and forecasts.
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  55. I think Swedish Bikini Team could help achieve peace in Europe
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  56.  Krishnkant Singh  China is everyone's economic rival, because their brittle form of govt (world's largest dictatorship under CCP / Emperor Xi) compels them to pursue economic expansionism, and any stunts required to support it. They are not interested in conventional economic trade relationships, but are interested in economic warfare.
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  57.  @sheldonwheaton881  Yes, US naval aircraft have already recently visited the Andaman Air-Naval Station at Port Blair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ld6sbXQf7A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uc8ItaueBs
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  58. This "ally" has also been arming and training terrorists who continue to attack, murder and maim US soldiers. Last I checked, South Korea has never done that.
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  59. OnceUponATimeThereWasAPersonWithALongUsername.TheElongationOfThatUsernameWasPlainlyLegendary Oh, it looks like the Pakistanis have arrived. Have you taken a break from arming the Taliban to kill US soldiers, as well as people in Balochistan?
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  60. I think that many Afghans would be happy living as separate states -- Uzbeki Afghans can rejoin Uzbekistan, Tajik Afghans can rejoin Tajikistan, Turkmen Afghans can rejoin Turkmenistan -- and Pashtun Afghans can reunify with Occupied NWFP to form Pashtunistan.
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  61. NATO was not created to fight ethno-national conflicts in Europe -- it was meant to oppose the threat of Soviet invasion and communist takeover of Western Europe. Some vested lobbies are wrongly equating Russia to the former USSR, and are attributing to Russia the same geostrategic motives as the USSR, even though Russia already had an established history as a Great Power prior to the existence of the USSR, including established Russian interests and red lines -- lines which clearly included Ukraine as a vital interest. When all you have is a (NATO) hammer, then every problem is made to look like a nail. America likewise has had an existence prior to its Cold War conflict with Moscow -- an existence which likewise included its own associated interests and red lines -- like the Monroe Doctrine, etc. America's Monroe Doctrine precedes the arrival of the Cold War, and therefore American pursuit of that doctrine should not automatically be construed as more Cold War hostility.
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  62. Also, China has existed since long before the rise of Mao and communism. Why should they suddenly be dependent upon communism now? The real answer is that the Communist Party are the new ruling institution, who must at least pay lip service to the ideology which they claim as their raison d'etre and mandate to rule. The problem is that this ideology cannot sustain the Chinese masses in the lifestyle they've become accustomed to. Mao came to power on the backs of rural masses who marched with him to storm the bastions of power. But which masses can Beijing's current ruling elite rely upon?
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  63. Except America's There you have to know its lobbyist map to know its foreign policy
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  64.  @UninstallingWindows  - no, it's about double standards and hypocrisy, which you of course will like to duck away from
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  65. my waist expansion is measured in Belgian chocolates
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  66.  @nickm5647  - next you'll tell me that putting the Taliban back in power was also a goal of the US govt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hNIX7V21pU
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  67.  @Fauzanarief-n7i  Also China: my Belt-and-road holding up my soiled underpants
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  68. America's mid-section isn't a buffering border area
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  69. I doubt the Russian army will be defeated. They're too large, too powerful, and the Russians have historical interests in Ukraine, where we can see that one third of the population is ethnically Russian. Moscow will simply negotiate a settlement with Kyiv, in order to achieve Russia's goals of Ukraine being a neutral buffer state.
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  70. and now permafrost -- until the arctic heats up
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  71. @Neptunian1000, Pakistan was never a democracy! When was it a democracy before? When Musharraf ousted democratically elected Nawaz Sharif in a military coup, then you Pakistanis were cheering for the coup! How can you claim you support democracy? Your support lasts only 5 minutes before you change your mind! When you have a democratically elected govt, then you wish for a coup against democracy. When you have a military govt, then you wish for democracy again. Fools never see their own mistakes.
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  72. PLA is currently making incursions against India, because Emperor-for-Life Xi Jinping is doing his best to stir up conflicts all along China's periphery. This is all about Xi trying to create distractions to save his own neck from the effects of backlash against his govt over its reckless mishandling of the COVID19 viral outbreak. India is a convenient target of opportunity.
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  73. @8:36 - Your explanation is poor and contrived. China doesn't fear Tibet being converted into an Indian military base. India historically never sought to occupy Tibet, as India was mainly just a bunch of kingdoms feuding with each other internally. It was China's invasion of Tibet in the 1950s which suddenly gave China a border with India. The reality is that China invaded Tibet because Mao's "Great Leap Forward" social experiment failed badly and caused mass famine. Anytime Beijing has run into difficulties at home, it has responded by pushing out westwards. This is what happened when China invaded Tibet in the 1950s, and this is also what has more recently been repeated with China's new Belt & Road Initiative. In both cases, India did nothing to precipitate China's actions. China invaded Tibet in the 1950s because Mao's "Great Leap Forward" failed, and then China later came up with the Belt-&-Road Initiative because of America's pushback against China's unfair trading practices. In both of these situations, China has sought to push out westwards, and in neither case has India been the cause of China's actions, but merely the recipient of them. From the Indian viewpoint, China is a wanton bully, and they're only going to keep pushing until someone else pushes back.
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  74. ​ @Malik Ambar - 'Sinophobe cope' seems to be the knee-jerk explanation for everything according to Woke teenagers like you. The issue isn't Sinophobia - next you'll claim complaints about Putin are Russophobia - the issue is about the Authoritarian Dictatorship in China and its dangerous practices, which include repression and concealment. You throw the word bigot around like you think you're some authority on it. Go take a look in the mirror - bigot is you.
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  75. So if Putin fails/falters in Ukraine, then does this save Taiwan by deterring China from invading? Or does it just mean China will do it even more ruthlessly?
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  76. Fascinating and inspired analysis from Shirvan and Caspian Report - very timely and well done!
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  77. Climate change would increase the agricultural growing seasons for Northern China and for Siberia, as well as Canada. Some places will actually benefit from Climate Change, even while others would suffer. Not everything is universally bad for everyone.
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  78.  Krishnkant Singh  look at how China is treating Indians - right now, even as we're speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DyK6NlbaJ4
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  79. But given the trend of massive immigration into the capital (currently Tehran) then wouldn't the new capital also create massive immigration into the Makran area? That would counteract pro-insurgency demographics, would it not?
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  80. he's from a place that's lived under communism those who believe in communism have no clue what it's really about
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  81. Trump's base is strongly with him, and even many of those outside his core base are nevertheless happy about a high-employment economy, and are therefore also likely to vote for him. Trump will therefore win by a landslide. The Democrats, by contrast, are seen as merely looking for fresh opportunities for impeachment under any pretext. First calling Trump a stooge of Putin, now claiming Trump abused his office to pressure another country - if these opportunities hadn't presented themselves, the Democrats would have sought a different opportunity, as their main goal is to impeach no matter what.
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  82. I doubt the Russian army will be defeated. They're too large, too powerful, and the Russians have historical interests in Ukraine, where we can see that one third of the population is ethnically Russian. Moscow will simply negotiate a settlement with Kyiv, in order to achieve Russia's goals of Ukraine being a neutral buffer state.
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  83. Chinese buy and sell to each other in Yuan all the time. Not hard at all for Russians to do the same. They have so many outfits operating in China.
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  84. With Canada leading the way, ideologically bankrupt Western Leftists have set themselves up to become inheritors of the old Western imperialism. Whereas the old Western imperialists used to go to faraway lands to rule over them with the help of sepoys recruited over there, now the new generation of Western imperialists seeks to import new recruits from abroad to help rule at home, and pays their loyal recruits by meddling in their faraway motherlands on their behalf. Justin Trudeau's father, the late Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau sought to expand immigration policies for his country Canada, in order to counteract the rising force of separatists in French-majority Quebec. Due to the threat of partition under the Anglo-French communal divide, Trudeau Sr sought to promote a new policy of multiculturalism. So, in other words, sepoys were recruited from abroad to reinforce Canada against breakup. Meanwhile foreign countries like India are supposed to pay the price of Canada's preservation by enduring separatist campaigns sustained from Canada's soil. Ottawa has abandoned Westphalian sovereignty in pursuit of its trans-nationalist enterprise, in the hope that the sun shall never set on Ottawa's empire. Welcome to the new Raj. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=929dvebYkow
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  85. Victors write the history books - what is the authenticity of the information? Otherwise, the claims and their advocates sound like political spin.
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  86. +Zedek First they budded in line when God was handing out the larger penises, and then they later showed up to kill the Caliph. Egyptians - always trying to raid everyone else's fun.
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  87. Pakistani, it is India which brought the Kashmir issue to the UN, and the resolution was authored by India. Do you admit your Pakistan rejected the resolution in the first place?
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  88. As if Pak MIlitary aren't corrupt - they run shopping malls, they run big businesses, and they won't give that up by losing their special powers and special control over politics. Corps Commanders are all Crore Commanders and Chor Commanders.
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  89. Shit-for-brains, when you fuckers aren't beheading others, it's because you've ran out of people to behead. Why don't you tell me about whether you've reformed your constitution to grant equality to all religions, and whether you've stopped persecuting Ahmadis for not being "true Muslims" like you? Don't fucking pretend that your country is the new benchmark for non-discrimination and civil rights. You know the truth, and that's why you're always sniffing up someone else's leg to ask about their country, because you never want to turn the mirror on yourself. Pathetic.
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  90. Temp Temp wrote "Pakistan is to China, what Israel is to America" Pakistanis also used to say "we are America's most allied ally" - then they harbored Osama and helped cause 9-11. Pakistan is a beggar nation which continually prostitutes itself, ultimately causing more headaches for others. Irredentists can never be reliable allies.
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  91. Evan Seguin, India is overrun by Left-wing liberal socialists -- and so increasingly is the USA, which is why it's headed to become like India
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  92. TRUTH SPREADER He's Pakistani, not American - he just pretends to be American (while screeching against "Islamophobia" all the time)
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  93. Faizal Bin Ibrahim You're simply making an assertion, without providing any actual facts other than your own assertion.
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  94. Modi is a great leader, and is the most popular so far in the nation's history
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  95. Nabil Ansari nobody takes your orders here, Pakistani
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  96. The plebiscite was to take place only after Pakistani withdrawal of its invading forces. In any case, the UN resolution was now lapsed.
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  97. India's peninsular landmass projects out into the Indian Ocean and is an unsinkable aircraft carrier. Any Chinese ingress into Sri Lanka can easily be cleaned out - we'll let them build the infrastructure there before we do it.
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  98. +ThatDutchGuy -- I was waiting for you to say that - actually, Sri Lanka is a part of the subcontinent and China is not. We can easily pull the rug out from under China and eject them from our area. Sri Lanka has far more ties to India than Philippines does to China. The fact is that China's economy is now plateauing and may soon be declining - and their dictatorship inflicts a high overhead cost on them. Their One Belt, One Road was conceived and announced at the last minute, like a desperate stunt. They haven't thought through the consequences - dictatorships like theirs only know stuntsmanship, because they have no organic means of survival. They can build, they can spend money, but they won't be able to stay - I'm quite sure of it.
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  99. All this makes me think that whoever helped overthrow Yanukovych really knew what they were doing - they knew they'd start a big sh!tstorm with the Russians if they did that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWkfpGCAAuw That infamous US undersecretary, Victoria Nuland, who got recorded making comments planning the Kiev coup - she's married to Robert Kagan, one of the key neo-cons infamously involved in ramming through the invasion of Iraq. While his name will forever be tied to that infamous maneuver into the Middle East, he seems to style himself as an expert historian on European affairs. Somehow I see people like Victoria Nuland and her Euro-expert husband Robert Kagan as having started this sh!tstorm with Ukraine as some kind of cunning maneuver to relieve pressure on their mother country Israel over its whole Palestinian predicament. They had the know-how/knowledge, and they had the motive -- and as the Romans would say, "Cui bono?" - Who Profits?
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  100. I've always wanted to visit Australia - such a beautiful country
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  101. But for the outside world that trades with China and invests in China, communism is not viable for them nor for their interests. China's leaders may need communism in order to hang onto their own power and positions, but the outside world that interacts with China have very different needs. The more communism becomes resurgent and ascendant in China, the less attractive China will be to the outside world. So perhaps a China that returns to communism will also return to its previous isolationism from the world which existed in the 1970s and prior.
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  102. Nah, Washington elites like Nuland were working to put Russia in a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't situation, which only precipitated Russia's invasion. Ukraine is well-known by Washington elites to be a sensitive spot for Russia, and that's exactly why they started hammering away at it. So glaringly obvious.
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  103. This was a US-sponsored regime change operation. The US was furious that India's Modi had gone to Moscow and saw this as a betrayal of Washington's interests. They were tired of an upstart India refusing to tilt in their favor and continuing to buy arms & oil from Russia. So they decided to put India in its place by fomenting a street coup in Dhaka, to convert Bangladesh into a local counterweight against India. These student protests started on the pretext of opposing hiring quotas - but when Hasina herself withdrew them, then the Courts mysteriously reinstated them. The attempt by the protesters to scapegoat Hasina by mindlessly blaming her anyway showed abject opportunism.
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  104. We're about to learn the answer to Xeno's Paradox : The Irresistible Loan Shark VS The Immovable Deadbeat I think SyFy Channel had a recent m̶o̶n̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶m̶o̶v̶i̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶s̶h̶-̶u̶p̶ documentary on the same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bnQOyUeN4 When the monsters fight, the bystanders have to scurry for cover.
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  105. ​ @Cookie Supervisor - which eastern part do you expect Russia to protect? China is busy preparing its forces for war over Taiwan, so they won't pose any threat to Russian border.
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  106. ​ @Cookie Supervisor - China is greedy, but they're calculating too. They need to grab Taiwan to break out of confinement from the bigger ocean. They don't gain anything from hostilities with Russia. They see USA as bigger threat.
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  107. the un-Brzezinski doctrine
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  108. @8:25 - "it doesn't have a name yet" -- probably better that it doesn't :face-blue-wide-eyes:
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  109. Discarding a fuel source is normally done once alternatives are in place to take the load. But that's simply not possible at this time. Germany even shut down its nuclear reactors following Fukushima, while Japan has brought its own reactors back online.
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  110. Stephanopoulos/Biden: Putin is a killer! Putin: You gotta problem with that?
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  111. I think they have to take over Odessa first, which will cut off Ukraine's Black Sea coast
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  112. Thank goodness Shirvan's voice is back. He is the best presenter of his own words.
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  113. I wish Kyiv had not decided to bombard Donbass in the first place. They should have gone for talks instead.
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  114. ​ @Petar Prodawitsch - oh, if it was okay for Kyiv to shell them, then it should have been okay for Milosevic too. You can't play selective double standards without shredding your credibility.
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  115. ​ @Petar Prodawitsch - NATO was not created to fight ethno-national conflicts in Europe -- it was meant to oppose the threat of Soviet invasion and communist takeover of Western Europe. Some vested lobbies are wrongly equating Russia to the former USSR, and are attributing to Russia the same geostrategic motives as the USSR, even though Russia already had an established history as a Great Power prior to the existence of the USSR, including established Russian interests and red lines -- lines which clearly included Ukraine as a vital interest. When all you have is a (NATO) hammer, then every problem is made to look like a nail. America likewise has had an existence prior to its Cold War conflict with Moscow -- an existence which likewise included its own associated interests and red lines -- like the Monroe Doctrine, etc. America's Monroe Doctrine precedes the arrival of the Cold War, and therefore American pursuit of that doctrine should not automatically be construed as more Cold War hostility.
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  116. I thought a branch of the armed forces is when you have armed personnel actually fighting in a domain. Otherwise, what's the difference between "Space Force" and NRO?
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  117. Plenty of people living under communist systems resort to corruption, hoarding, etc. Plenty of govt officials with unchecked power abuse them. For every example of altruism you'd care to cite, I can show human selfishness eventually making things go awry.
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  118. ​ @PakistanDefenseForum  you're spewing Pakistani propaganda. When Pakistan applied for international recognition at the UN, one state voted against it - Afghanistan. This is because Pakistan sought to inherit from the British territory taken from the Afghan Pashtuns through imperial war. This dispute over that Af-Pak border is the real reason that Pakistan sent Pashtun tribal militias from that area to attack Kashmir, out of fear that an independent Kashmir that didn't join Pakistan or India would trigger a similar desire in Pashtuns to claim independence from nascent Pakistan. That would have resulted in Pakistan's stillbirth and disintegration, and so Pakistan chose to trigger a different war instead.
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  119. Shirvan has always had a slant on Kashmir and even Afghanistan. Look at his videos giving sympathetic portrayal of Taliban as poor orphans.
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  120. Hell no - wealth circulates only among Han Chinese, not among the Tibetan or Uighur serfs. Of the latter, their lands are considered valuable but not the people themselves. They don't have the demographic numbers to be seen as worth catering to. No Han really even want to live over there, just like Russians don't move to Siberia.
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  121.  @freemanol  - I'm not disagreeing that remote areas are less appealing for investment. Regardless, main economic activity in China is among dominant Han ethnic group. Those areas however used to be autonomous and had their own independent economic trade ties with the rest of the world (aka. Silk Road). Under Beijing's stranglehold grip they're now just backwaters to be plundered for resources, without cultivating human capital.
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  122. Take a look at how China treats its minorities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCTX9xcLY4Y Beijing is really doing a lot of crazy stuff.
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  123. ​ @Alex Vig - you may be right - but it seems that China's leaders reached this conclusion only after first groping through various other options by trial and error. When Trump arrived, he put China on notice that its unconstrained trade imbalances were unsustainable and would not be allowed to continue. He immediately matched his rhetoric with efforts in shifting global supply chains away from China. Beijing in turn quickly announced its new Belt & Road Initiative, which involved copious investments in deadbeat countries with dubious creditworthiness that other lenders stayed away from. As the liabilities of this route likewise began exposing themselves, Beijing's leadership is now finally falling back on return to authoritarianism in the name of communism. Suddenly we see crackdowns on social media & tech companies, and now even looming bankruptcies of colossal scale. Even if Beijing leaders can ride out such titanic shockwaves, what of China's fawning admirers in the West who've invested their financial futures in the China bubble? Will they be jumping out of windows when their investments are swallowed up?
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  124. NATO was not created to fight ethno-national conflicts in Europe -- it was meant to oppose the threat of Soviet invasion and communist takeover of Western Europe. Some vested lobbies are wrongly equating Russia to the former USSR, and are attributing to Russia the same geostrategic motives as the USSR, even though Russia already had an established history as a Great Power prior to the existence of the USSR, including established Russian interests and red lines -- lines which clearly included Ukraine as a vital interest. When all you have is a (NATO) hammer, then every problem is made to look like a nail. America likewise has had an existence prior to its Cold War conflict with Moscow -- an existence which likewise included its own associated interests and red lines -- like the Monroe Doctrine, etc. America's Monroe Doctrine precedes the arrival of the Cold War, and therefore American pursuit of that doctrine should not automatically be construed as more Cold War hostility.
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  125. China did have the Iron Rice Bowl, but gradually began to phase it out in the name of efficiency and prosperity. But really, state-propped up companies became the new welfare state. Now that's all looking shaky, thanks to cronyism, lack of transparency, and inefficient capital allocation.
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  126.  @ANWRocketMan  it was a mutual disagreement between both sides, and not a one-sided abandonment. Philippines now has the freedom to fight its own battles - or see China grab territory from it - whichever.
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  127. Shirvan, rather than showing a one-sided bias, if you really believe there's geographic determinism, then why not also explore the geographic determinism for the United States as well? By the same standard, a similar argument could be made that America's own geographic distance from the Eurasian continent compels it to become a Far Emperor constantly meddling in the affairs of these distant lands, under the pretext of defending "freedom", "liberty", etc which are in increasingly dwindling supply at home.
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  128.  @PutXi_Whipped  - okay, CCP apologist, perhaps you'd like to tell us why Evergrande and other property developers are suddenly emerging from the shadows with massive bankruptcies looming. Are you going to claim this as a sign of healthy transparency? China's system is notoriously opaque, and thus prone to massive bubbles. Now go cope.
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  129. @1:57 - I assume you meant 2.5 million barrels / day
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  130. Would it alter the weather patterns for Australia? If so, then in what way?
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  131. France feels backstabbed - but will they try to get even?
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  132. @5:15 - Chinese troops in Iran? Bombers & fighters too? Waitasec - what enemy does China have in the Middle East or beyond it, that would motivate it to have a military presence there? America has been retreating from the Middle East, since it's been steadily moving away from dependency on Middle Eastern oil and switching to internal sources like fracking, even while promoting renewable energy. So if China's sudden new lurch towards the Middle East is then motivated by securing access to oil supplies, will that motivation still continue down the road, as renewables increasingly come to dominate world energy markets? Will an ideologically independent Iran likewise continue to be in China's orbit, after it has reaped the major benefits of Chinese investment?
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  133. Nearly half of all Israeli Jews are descended from European Jewish diaspora. European countries, which purport to be democracies, could easily open their arms to European Israelis. It's really the Sephardic Israeli Jews, who come from Arab countries now hostile to them, who have no place to go. :face-purple-wide-eyes:
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  134. I do wonder where these weapons will end up, though. Will they make their way into the hands of radical organizations? Whose passenger airliner will be the first to be downed by a Stinger missile?
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  135. There's a large Russian population in that area. Kyiv and Ukrainian ethno-nationalists may be trying to ethnically cleanse Russian inhabitants from that area, but that's only going to increase the number of recruits to the Russian forces.
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  136. What about effect on Mekong river water?
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  137. Le Paradoxe de Xeno? La Guerre des Etoiles? Giant Loan Shark VS Insatiable Money-Sucker (brought to you by SyFy Channel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bnQOyUeN4
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  138. I have to admit, Shirvan's ad-hoc advertisement insertion skill looked very organic here. :face-fuchsia-poop-shape:
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  139.  @uhrologe2596  It will have more airbases, naval bases, missile batteries, fortified garrisons, along with radar and sonar networks.
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  140. You sound like an expansionist. Are you hoping to push the Russians east of Vladivostok? After the dissolution of the USSR & Warsaw Pact, NATO too should have been dissolved. Instead, pushing it farther east up to Russian borders has only led to the revival of the Cold War that was NATO's bread & butter in the first place. Many top American experts, including Henry Kissinger, George Kennan, Robert Gates, Stephen Cohen, John Mearsheimer, etc have warned that continual NATO expansion eastward would provoke war with Russia. Their advice was ignored, and war has inevitably occurred. I notice that Finland's govt is avoiding holding a referendum on NATO membership, and is making its decision to apply an act of fiat. So much for "democracy" under NATO.
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  141. Youtuber: China's system is not a utopia Commenters: you hateful China-bashing Orientalist!
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  142. It's weird to portray climate change as a military matter. Bases can simply be shifted to other locations.
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  143. CaspianReport wants to rename itself to BalticReport
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  144.  @Johnnycdrums  Stalin was a Georgian, not a Russian
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  145. I found this latest video to be a bunch of propaganda - just like the idea that Putin is getting old and wants to restore Soviet Union before he dies. I think the trigger for war was the Ukrainian seige of the Donbass region, and their recent massacres of civilians there. I also see that popular worldview is being re-written overnight like an Orwell novel. The Overton window is suddenly being shifted in a lurch. Russia isn't even in the top 10 economies of the world -- meanwhile China, the world's #2 economy, is going to become the #1 economy within 5 years. Yet we're seriously discussing the notion of a world dominated by Moscow?
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  146. "Socializing the losses and personalizing the gains" US & Israeli soldiers being killed & maimed = Socializing the Losses Netanyahu avoiding facing criminal prosecution = Privatizing the gains
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  147. 999-dash line!
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  148. I found this latest video to be a bunch of propaganda - just like the idea that Putin is getting old and wants to restore Soviet Union before he dies. I think the trigger for war was the Ukrainian seige of the Donbass region, and their recent massacres of civilians there. I also see that popular worldview is being re-written overnight like an Orwell novel. The Overton window is suddenly being shifted in a lurch. Russia isn't even in the top 10 economies of the world -- meanwhile China, the world's #2 economy, is going to become the #1 economy within 5 years. Yet you're seriously discussing the notion of a world dominated by Moscow? ⁉
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  149. ​ @aaronhpa - again, all this has been heard before so many times. "You don't support communism because you don't understand communism" blahblahblah - and despite all the propaganda, the communism always fails. Some stubborn people refuse to learn, and only end up learning the hard way through failure and collapse. Communism has been tried plenty of times and has always collapsed due to its ridiculous and impractical ideas, which get embraced by stubborn idiots.
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  150. US says it knew about Bin Laden's hideout for 2 years, and was slowly preparing to attack him. Meanwhile, there has been the recent "Arab Spring" which has removed key dictatorships in the Middle East, thus relieving domestic political pressures within key states. Is the timing a coincidence? Did the US deliberately approve of "Arab Spring" to gain maximum benefit from the planned assassination of Bin Laden? When multiple responses coincide/combine against a problem, it boosts chances of success
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  151. I think foreign forces had a hand in the insurrection that unconstitutionally ousted Yanuckovitch's govt in Ukraine. Something similar was recently done in Kazakhstan. I also think that US riots during the summer of 2020 seemed suspiciously like an attempt to destabilize the constitutionally elected govt of Donald Trump. But of course when other Americans rioted right back in Jan-6-2021, then suddenly that was declared to be an illegitimate insurrection -- and also magically declared to be "white supremacist." It seems like Euro-centrist lobbies are acting as kingmakers by deciding who gets to be declared "white supremacist" and delegitimized/repudiated, in order to keep their American vassal state in its place.
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  152. China + North Korea + Cambodia that's all I can come up with
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  153. ​ @John Smith - I don't think you understand what was going on in East Ukraine before Putin's invasion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV36XcQDmjU
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  154. Why the hell did Beijing build such a dam, if losing it could cause so much destruction? Building many smaller dams would have been far smarter.
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  155. Biden is working his hardest to ensure people want to run away from the US Dollar. "Build Back Better" (Build & buy votes with other people's money), "Inflation Rescue Act" (pour more monetary gasoline on the inflation fire). The bottom line is the rest of the world wants to get off this merry-go-round that's dictated by a small number of elites in the USA. For these elites to then laugh and sneer, "You'll come crawling back, you have nowhere else to go!" only incentivizes more determination for emancipation from their ugly racket. The wheels are falling off this scam, because it's being abused to the hilt. Every monopoly falls into corruption and triggers its own demise - the US Dollar is no magical exception.
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  156. ISIS-K is being armed by Pakistan, which uses them to exert pressure on the Taliban (This is the same ISIS-K which blew up 13 young US marines at Kabul airport in August 2021)
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  157. +meisam gholami well, since most of the Muslim world is Sunni, I guess they didn't much are for that particular statement from the Profit/Prophet.
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  158. Congratulations on this very informative report - very well done. Territorially, Australia reminds me a bit of Canada, with its barren but resource-rich north, with the population concentrated in the southeast. But meanwhile regionally it's a bit like Britain, as an island nation located off the coast of a major continent, and seeking US help as a balancer. I'd find it hard to believe Australia could shift its mooring away from the United States, since China would not be a reliable or trusted protector. I'm not sure Australia has the power projection clout to prevent the rise of warlordism and piracy in places like Indonesia or Papua New Guinea. Those areas are pretty populated, and it would take a lot of manpower to secure them.
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  159. "The moment you discriminate (sic) a group of people, that group will be isolated from society. Over time, that isolation will force that group to unite among their own kind, which is exactly the opposite of integration... Over time the isolated group will radicalize as their ideology will become their sole pillar of strength and unity. This is historically how persecuted and oppressed people radicalize." So how come this problem never occurred for Muslim societies which practiced and continue to practice discrimination against non-Muslim minorities? If the answer is that Muslim majorities have been brutal enough to crush dissenters and minorities, then what does that say about Islam?
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  160. If it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking Pashto right now. Article 370 will be removed, and non-Muslim minority refugees will be resettled to Kashmir.
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  161. The more you adopt Islamist xenophobic sectarianism and ethnically cleanse the non-Muslim minorities like Kashmiri Pandits and Buddhists, the more you will isolate yourselves. If it wasn't for our sacrifices, there would be no Kashmir and you'd be speaking Pashto today.
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  162. Umer Javed No, we will indeed talk about the history of PAKISTANI FLIP-FLOPPING. We will not ignore these facts just because it embarrasses you and exposes your credibility as garbage. Please explain why your Jinnah rejected the UN Resolution. Please explain why your Pakistan rejected this resolution for decades. The only reason why Pakistan suddenly embraced the UN resolution many decades later, was because it found that one it had nuclear weapons, it had a shield to hide behind while injecting jihadist violence into the Valley. The non-Muslims of the world will not accept being held hostage to jihadism -- especially nuclear-backed jihadism. Yours is a medieval irredentist ideology.
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  163. Haqqani group are the most aggressive, but Pakistan supports far more than them. Pakistan supports the entire Taliban insurgency against the United States, killing and maiming American soldiers with impunity, while demanding billions in US aid in return.
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  164. Haqqani group has already done plenty of prior attacks to prove their wickedness. They continue to arm and train others to commit further attacks. Butcher of Kabul Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was Pakistan's previous stooge in Afghanistan, before Pak created Taliban. So don't complain to me about Hekmatyar's butchery when your Pak Army was supporting him when he did it. Pak only abandoned Hekmatyar after he refused to endorse the Durand Line, and while he failed to make headway against Masoud in the north. You shits created the Taliban - you wouldn't be suffering now if you hadn't created them - now you're crying because some of your creation has turned against you. And yet still the Pak Army won't abandon Taliban or trying to use them to convert Afghanistan into their client state. As Mrs Clinton correctly said, you shouldn't grow snakes in your backyard to bite the neighbors, or you'll get bitten - not that you're learning any lessons from her warning.
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  165. "Caste system" is an english phrase created by english rulers. "John Smith" means "John the blacksmith", "Tom Carver" means "Tom the woodcarver", "Ed Fisher" means "Edward the fisherman", and so on. Likewise, Indians have various socio-economic groupings and ethnicities, just as everyone else does. As India's economy liberalizes and develops, a fluid economy renders such things vestigeal. You Muslims have least amount of knowledge of other cultures. so you're least capable of judging others in your ignorance. It's not like Pakistan is an egalitarian country.
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  166. Donny G, Sure it is - just because Pakistan doesn't recognize it, doesn't make it otherwise
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  167. Umer Javed These are all events from 70 years ago - the better part of a century - the debate is now academic. Just like India's UN Resolution on Kashmir from 70 years ago is now merely academic. The fact that Pakistani irredentists continue to throw tantrums and pursue destructive conflict over the matter is a reflection on their own self-destructive behavior.
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  168. OnceUponATimeThereWasAPersonWithALongUsername.TheElongationOfThatUsernameWasPlainlyLegendary you are once again demonstrating that you don't even know what the word "equivocation" means - you keep doing this over and over. You're a Pakistani pretending to be an American, I see - that's why you keep defending Pakistan's invasion and occupation of Baluchistan.
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  169. OnceUponATimeThereWasAPersonWithALongUsername.TheElongationOfThatUsernameWasPlainlyLegendary again, you keep using the word "equivocation" in a way that shows you don't know what the word means. Look it up in a dictionary, man. Pakistan militarily invaded Balochistan in April of 1948, and forced the Khan of Kalat to sign a treaty of accession. So basically they acquired Balochistan at gunpoint, and not by voluntary merger. You're a Pakistani masquerading as an American, aren't you?
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  170. OnceUponATimeThereWasAPersonWithALongUsername.TheElongationOfThatUsernameWasPlainlyLegendary again, go look up the word "equivocation" in the dictionary - that word doesn't mean what you think it means. As Pakistani, I don't think your own command of english is that great - you've got too many illiterates among you.
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  171. OnceUponATimeThereWasAPersonWithALongUsername.TheElongationOfThatUsernameWasPlainlyLegendary "our face" - so you ARE Pakistani - why do you hide behind an avatar pic of an American? You probably live in the USA but don't really identify with it, right? You remind me of that guy Ahmad Khan Rahami who grew up in the USA but was still making trips back to Pakistan to get brainwashed by Taliban. Then he set off the bombs in NYC and NJ.
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  172. Aditya He's like that guy in the news - Ahmad Khan Rahami - growing up in the USA but hating on it and masturbating over his beloved Pakistan instead. These guys are ticking time-bombs -- eventually their fanaticism will lead them to blow up something in the infidel land surrounding them -- the land that they hate. All guys like him can do is keep a hard-on for his beloved failed state Pakistan. They have this romantic view of the place, and don't see it for what it really is. Another Rahami harami in training (sigh).
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  173. ***** Stop trying to fuel separatism in Indian Kashmir. There is no special exception here - if you do it against us, we'll do it against you. Don't forget, your country has already been broken in 1971, and can be broken again.
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  174. And who the fuck are you? Some perfumed success story? You'll have to speak up, so that I can hear you over the race riots in the background.
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  175. ***** Communist/socialist ideology may be undergoing a revival in the West, thanks to the infiltration of their media and academia by the socialist movement. But communism in Russia is dead and gone. It's more worthwhile that the Western world devote attention to eradicating communism from its own midst, rather than picking fights with erstwhile former communist states where that ideology holds no political sway whatsoever.
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  176. Mawao Myers What's your point man - some of you have fought wars over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin - what superiority are you claiming or speaking from?
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  177. ***** you Russophobes keep oscillating between contradictory arguments. On the one hand you typically claim that Putin is an expansionist dictator who is unpopular at home. Then on the other hand, you say that Russians are actually in love with Putin and his expansionism, and this is all very popular among Russians. Please make up your mind on which fiction you wish to peddle - they both can't work at the same time, because they're contradictory. I sense that you want to trot out a cocktail of different arguments, and then switch between them regardless of the lack of internal consistency. I don't think you Socialist One Worlders will succeed in subverting either American national sovereignty or anyone else's, because local people know better than to be sucked in by your claptrap. I also see that you want to adopt the methods of your alleged enemies - you want to create socialist dictatorship in America and steer it into war against your hated Russian enemy, whom you also imagine to be a socialist dictatorship. Nobody wants to be hijacked by you and your socialist jihad. Just remember - Stalin himself was a minority, and that's why he committed so many abuses, since he was trying to build up his massive dictatorship state to impose his will on larger ethnic groups that he himself traditionally saw as threatening to himself. Obama the minority has sought to do the same in America, treating the bulk of the American population as his adversaries - like a Tail Which Wants to Wag the Dog.
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  178. ***** speak of yourself - the world is changing and leaving you behind, along with your petty little ethnic feud. We all have lives to live, and can't revolve around your petty feuding needs.
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  179. Paul G that's a retarded Straw Man Argument - "caste system" is an english phrase - no such equivalent phrasing exists in any local Indian language, which shows that no such system exists. This phrase came into existence during the period of British rule, whereby they tried to describe their Indian subjects using language similar to their own British Feudal System of which they were highly proud. The crucial difference is that unlike Britain, their Indian colony was economically stagnant, particularly in the villages, where people have continued to live in the same conditions they lived in centuries ago. What India has isn't really a caste system, but rather the same time type of tribalism and socio-economic fragmentation which exist in any part of the world - including the United States and Britain. Just because the British slapped their phrase "caste system" onto Indians, doesn't make it true.
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  180. OnceUponATimeThereWasAPersonWithALongUsername.TheElongationOfThatUsernameWasPlainlyLegendary And what's your perfect religion, dumbass? I'm an atheist, myself.
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  181. By forcing society to always keep looking over its shoulder to ensure that certain groups are appeased and made to feel loved, then social blackmail is being legitimized. It should be up to each individual or group of individuals to manage their relations with others and their own credibility. By making this a state responsibility, it opens up a can of worms which would encourage anyone and everyone to solicit state involvement on any pretext of alienation. Such a situation is simply not viable in the long run.
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  182. Shirwan has shown his bias - not just on the Kashmir issue - but also on past reporting of events in ancient Islamic history. I've called him out on this stuff before.
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  183. Rohingya insurgency in Myanmar would meet same fate as Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka. Just as Sri Lanka took military assistance from China in getting heavy weapons supplies to smash the LTTE, likewise Myanmar would similarly obtain heavier arms from China to crush any Rohingya insurgents with extreme prejudice. An increasingly cash-strapped Saudi Arabia will be in no position to continue creating enemies abroad by arming insurgents. On the contrary - more Muslim insurgencies only adds up to more Muslim travel bans in the future.
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  184. Advocacy is nothing compared to actual track record of deeds committed. The proof is in the pudding.
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  185. Cooper martin I wanna know where your best beaches and other tourist hotspots are - what are the most beautiful sights?
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  186. @Neptunian1000, Read Prime Minister Gilani's latest spech to the parliament - he is vowing to use "full force" if American forces conduct another incursion into Pakistan. Does this sound like a counter-balance to the hawkish Army? No - in his speech he gave a clean chit to the army and ISI, and fully blamed the USA and international community for Bin Laden's presence in his country! Sorry, but this is called being a puppet. If this doesn't qualify as puppet behavior, then I don't know what will.
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  187. China wins if the US continues to myopically focus on Russia. The reality is that China has backed Putin's invasion of Ukraine for a reason, and Putin would have never dared invade without it. Even since the first few weeks of the invasion conflict, China quickly brought its island fortresses in the South China Sea to full military operational readiness, so that it now has full military dominance in the South China Sea. China has also signed a military agreement with the Solomon Islands that could see a Chinese military base built there. If that happens, then Australia will be flanked from its more populated eastern side, and its sea lanes of communication to the United States would be in jeopardy. I think Putin knows that things will be happening elsewhere in the world that will make his move on Ukraine pale by comparison.
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  188. The children of Bin Laden are still there in Afghanistan, and ISIS-K are one of them. They may have splintered into multiple factions, but ISIS-K have emerged as the strongest. That's why the US can't afford to let its guard down, because these children are trying to make a comeback, so that they can strike again.
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  189. ​ @FHD SnSLifestyle 2K - with that illusory "stability" comes opacity and corruption, along with the ability for large bubbles to form -- until they burst catastrophically. Their system promotes groupthink, which can lead to large-scale capital misallocation. Look at ghost cities. Look at the ridiculous schemes like the One Child Policy -- do you think that won't have massive repercussions? Their birth rate is already so low that they can't even fix it now. They have instability under the surface, but it's just the kind that accrues and accrues until it erupts volcanically.
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  190. ​ @FHD SnSLifestyle 2K - I don't know which sample set you're comparing China against or why. Clearly China's growth is slowing down, and clearly Xi Jinping's govt is cracking down on Chinese society, from tech companies to celebrities to leisure groups. Since China has survived for thousands of years, as you say, then what makes CCP so necessary or indispensable for this? How are China's current ruling elite even communists, other than in name? Where do they truly derive their mandate from?
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  191. ​ @FHD SnSLifestyle 2K - communism was just a pretext for one-party rule. What's the need for communism now? The rulers don't like to give up the power they have. Dictatorship only breeds corruption. Dictator Xi Jinping only wants to engage in confrontation & hostility towards the rest of the world, so that he can rally the Chinese people around him, to avoid them calling for his removal.
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  192. ​ @FHD SnSLifestyle 2K - America's economic bubbles are less severe in comparison to problems like Evergrande. China's ghost cities still haven't filled up, and the real estate companies are collapsing. Look at China's demographics -- One Child Policy from dictatorship will only mean a population skewed toward the elderly.
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  193.  @2KSnSLifestyle  - crackdown is not against their monopolies, since they compete among themselves. Crackdown is to ensure they don't threaten the monopoly of the state. Xi Jinping wants to show them all who's boss - he wants them to bend their knee to him. China's political system is not based on legalism - that's just your latest spin. Next week you'll replace legalism with some other new phrase. You guys say something different each time - no credibility. China's system is based on dictatorship, and the dictatorship keeps trying to reinvent its image into something new. God-emperor Xi Jinping wants everyone to bow to him, and so he has squashed down all his rivals in the party. Xi is now trying to extend China's imperialism abroad.
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  194. ​ @FHD SnSLifestyle 2K - Evergrande and real estate collapse are ample evidence. Xi's unprovoked crackdown against society is more evidence. Dictator is nervous - he's paranoid about losing power, and so he lashes out at every shadow and flicker.
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  195. ​ @FHD SnSLifestyle 2K - don't give lectures on mass starvation, when the worst famines in human history happened under Mao.
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  196. ​ @FHD SnSLifestyle 2K - America's transparency allows economic bubbles to be fully exposed. Meanwhile China's opaque statist system allows bubbles to grow to alarming proportions. Evergrande is far over-leveraged beyond its actual assets. All kinds of international analysts have warned of severe consequences for China's real estate market, and for its wider economy which depends on it. China has shrunk its population at the cost of aging its population. An aging workforce is not going to be able to overcome the middle income trap. On the contrary, it will only make China more feeble.
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  197. ​ @FHD SnSLifestyle 2K - "the Chinese model" - this is no model for emulation, this is the diktat of an authoritarian dictatorship. America isn't restricted to 2 parties, and independent candidates are certainly allowed to run. Freedom of choice in choosing the leadership is what enables Americans to oppose corruption. Meanwhile in China, the powerful and corrupt only get more powerful and more corrupt. Where is Peng Shuai?
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  198. ​ @FHD SnSLifestyle 2K - see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQyYDRURH30
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  199. ​ @FHD SnSLifestyle 2K - also watch this too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3kIsW4KEM
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  200.  @Roelvvv  - I guess you've never met Pakistanis
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  201. China has the geopolitical heft to broker an Iran-Afghan agreement :hand-purple-blue-peace:
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  202.  @miguel5785  - no, the USA has dedrawn rules on numerous occasions, like the illegal invasion of Iraq, which involved many of the same players as this current war on Russia thru the Ukrainian proxies. Madam Victoria Nuland was certainly involved in illegal invasion of Iraq, just as she was involved in overthrowing Qadafi govt in Libya to kill him, and the attempted overthrow of the Assad govt in Syria to eliminate them. Putin's intervention there put him next on the target list. When USA redraws rules and pretends to call it "liberalism" then it ends up killing lots of people in the name of so-called "liberalism". Repeating the word "liberalism" over and over like a chant doesn't make it so. Such "truth by repeated assertion" would make Goebbels proud.
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  203. Pakistan becomes less important to China now, only being useful as a local counterweight to distract India, the way North Korea is only useful to China as a local counterweight against Japan & US. It seems like Shanghai Cooperative Organization is dead, having been superceded by BRI.
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  204. "wrap yourself in the flag" vs "false flag" ?
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  205. I thought Central China is the land of Ghost Cities. The places where wealthier coastal Chinese ambitiously sought to build into, but nobody actually cared to move to. Where dreams hit the limits of reality.
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  206. ​ @Rhodie Brodie - more orders for defense contractors, and more profits. They'd be happy if US military threw away equipment as fast as they can make it.
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  207.  @nickm5647  - US was caught with its pants down. US military planners were totally unprepared for collapse of the Afghan army & state. This was worse than the Fall of Saigon. America is a superpower no more.
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  208.  @user-up1ny  Indian empires like the Mauryans have existed since long before the British arrived.
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  209. Axis of Feeble
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  210. All these Scand countries have like 1.3 births per couple, similar to Russians. Aging without replacement means soon they'll only be limping to the battlefront with walking canes while shivering in the cold. Why should the rest of the world care about empty barren tundra?
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  211. But I thought arctic was always owned by China since the KaChing dynasty -- just look at the 99-dash line
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  212. ​ @Petar Prodawitsch - there are those who want out of NATO, including Americans themselves. But they can't leave, or otherwise they are labeled a stooge of Putin and are threatened with impeachment. America is not NATO's leader, but rather its vassal. If you want war in Europe, then do it on your own dime, and not by yoking others involuntarily. Americans are tired of running an Empire on your behalf, just to be your Far Emperor. Go fight your ethnic blood-feuds on your own, and leave others out of it.
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  213. Don't you mean Oceania? There are only 3 powers in Orwell's novel.
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  214. ​ @Kay Allen - your Biden is a senile puppet on the throne, who runs away from reporters while his phalanx of handlers shoo them away. This is your idea of democracy and transparent government? Your own comments say more about you and your own politics than anything else.
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  215. yeah, but the bigger the weapon, the more damage the dangerous men can do
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  216. @1:57 - I assume you meant 2.5 million barrels / day
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  217.  @Junokaii  I think the future of the energy sector worldwide could be a good topic to focus on. It would be interesting to know where the energy sector in general is headed, how long oil will continue to dominate in the future along with natural gas, and what the prospects are for the newer technologies around renewables.
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  218.  @PakistanDefenseForum  Bangladesh' water rights are directly inherited from the Indus Water Treaty. Where is China bound by any internationally-backed treaty to responsibly share water?
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  219.  @tritium1998  big talk. India is in a much better state of military readiness than it was in 1962. China has been busy making enemies with every neighboring country. We have a much younger population than yours, thanks to CCP One Child Policy. We can provide plenty of troops to fight yours. Your One Child Families will be destroyed when their lone child is gone. Our families are big, with many children. Our military is very battle-experienced, whereas your young amateurs have only had drills -- it's not the same thing.
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  220. ☀Portable sun - built in a cave, with a box of scraps
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  221. Well, there goes the neighborhood
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  222. Since Scandinavian countries have a track record of meeting fiscal commitments, will they finally be the first NATO members to meet the spending contribution requirements for NATO?
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  223. Meanwhile Washington DC seems to be run like King's Landing
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  224. You haven't been handed the bill yet. It's nice to dine well - until you receive the bill at the end.
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  225. Tell us about the new US-Mekong partnership, because that looks very interesting
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  226.  @freemanol  - overall population levels are low, though. Even central China has ghost cities.
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  227.  @freemanol  - it's pretty low density across such a large area, just like Siberia has low density across such a large area. There's nothing to naturally attract and maintain a large population base there. Remember that those areas are plateaus, and they get really frigid in the cold season and at night.
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  228. ​ @Freeman - their ability to act independently to raise their own standard of living is constrained by the hegemony of Beijing. Even worse, Beijing is now trying to destroy their populations to replace them with loyal Han Chinese. Everybody understands that CCP is advancing a racial agenda which leaves no place for Uighurs, Tibetans, Mongolians.
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  229. ​ @Freeman - no, I see that you are trying to blindly make assertions and using dubious examples in support of them.
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  230. @zkhannn, No, *you* be careful how you talk about Pak, because it is a terrorist supporting state. Pak creates the terrorists, and then it charges a fee to eliminate them. It's like a guy charging you money to get rid of rats from the neighborhood, but then you find out he's the one who is bringing rats to the neighborhood in the first place - nice scam! Pak was the only country to give diplomatic recognition to Taliban, so who is fooled when Pak pretends it hunts Taliban?
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  231. The idea of Ukraine being able to pull off an invasion of Crimea is absurd. The Russian military recruitment has ramped up and a far bigger Russian force is now being mobilized into Donbass and will be pushing the Ukrainians back to the Dniepr.
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  232. Basically Kyiv wants to do Ethnic Cleansing of Crimea, just like Donbass. So we all know what will happen to Russians and other non-Ukrainians in these areas if Kyiv military invades.
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  233. dude, I've viewed a number of your reports, and they're quite good please keep doing them
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  234. China isn't doing random charity work. They're expanding their tentacles to grab South China Sea.
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  235. Hah, tell that to Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, The Squad, and other Democrats 😅
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  236.  @PutXi_Whipped  - I didn't pose it as a question, genius. You're the one who's asking "What genocide? What slavery?" -- it's pretty clear that plenty of Chinese don't have full rights or bargaining power of labor like the rest of the world. So Chinese masses are basically captive labor. Are you going to claim that Uighurs in Xinjiang are free? There's definitely slave labor going on there. Just watch one of the documentaries on Youtube. And go cope.
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  237.  @elmohead  - look at the sources - better than CCP
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  238.  @elmohead  - exactly, and neither are these wumao who keep squawking on their behalf
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  239. and yet Xi Jinping is shedding the capitalism in the name of returning to what he calls communism (reality: the so-called 'clever' Xi Jinping is confused and in over his head, so he's saying "fuck this, I'm getting off this crazy ride")
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  240. @zkhannn, The Taliban did not exist during the war against the Soviets, they were created after the Soviet withdrawal so that Pakistan could take control of the Afghan Pashtun jihadis and use them to conquer Afghanistan, turning it into a Pakistani-controlled puppet state. But even during the war against the Soviets, Pakistan kept the US at arm's length, only accepting US arms and money, so that only ISI would arm the jihadis. And of course ISI only armed the worst fanatics like Hekmatyar, etc.
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  241. Manchuria
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  242. pro tip: these "transition" phases never end
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  243. Gulf War is not a good case for comparison with Russia-Ukraine war. Furthermore, Russia has a huge advantage in land forces. This analysis from you is poor.
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  244. NATO was not created to fight ethno-national conflicts in Europe -- it was meant to oppose the threat of Soviet invasion and communist takeover of Western Europe. Some vested lobbies are wrongly equating Russia to the former USSR, and are attributing to Russia the same geostrategic motives as the USSR, even though Russia already had an established history as a Great Power prior to the existence of the USSR, including established Russian interests and red lines -- lines which clearly included Ukraine as a vital interest. When all you have is a (NATO) hammer, then every problem is made to look like a nail. America likewise has had an existence prior to its Cold War conflict with Moscow -- an existence which likewise included its own associated interests and red lines -- like the Monroe Doctrine, etc. America's Monroe Doctrine precedes the arrival of the Cold War, and therefore American pursuit of that doctrine should not automatically be construed as more Cold War hostility.
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  245. I measure the expansion of my waist by Belgian chocolates
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  246. Chinese leadership don't care if world unites against them. From their point of view, the more enemies China faces, the more the Chinese population will rally around the leadership in Beijing. The leaders fear an uprising from the masses, and creating an external threat will help to create a sense of siege to allow the leaders to claim they are indispensable protectors of the Chinese public. Otherwise, nobody likes living under the world's largest dictatorship.
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  247. China will wreck its relations with everybody with its water exploitation. I'm surprised Cambodia and Laos continue to be so politically docile and under China's grip, when their entire water supply stands threatened.
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  248.  Nom Anor  I don't see where in my post I answered the question of why Cambodia and Laos continue to be so politically subservient to Beijing, when the survival of their countries is imperiled by China's water dominance. What I see is that China established hold over them by backing armed revolutionaries on their soil to take them over from within, and then China subsequently followed up with trade and commercial ties later on. But it's not as if those ties are one-way, and there should be space for alternative leadership to naturally emerge in Cambodia and Laos, to get the best deals for their people.
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  249. So if Putin fails/falters in Ukraine, then does this save Taiwan by deterring China from invading? Or does it just mean China will do it even more ruthlessly?
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  250. You may be forgetting Pakistan's army
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  251.  @tritium1998  India has no reason to blockade other countries -- it's only China that would suffer blockade. Furthermore, other countries would cooperate together with India against the Chinese bully as the common foe.
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  252. Inserted contraception into the native Inuit population without consent⁉ "Social experimentation" sounds like a polite way of referring to ethnic cleansing. WTF Danes, you've really had some twisted thinking going on. This is why the world doesn't want to plunge backwards towards your Cold War nostalgia. Europe needs to be stripped of its colonies, and all their colonized lands need to be liberated, before that kind of old thinking comes back into vogue again.
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  253. Why don't the Russians just do SEZs like the Chinese started off with? Then they can maintain political stability even while reaping some free market benefits.
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  254.  @tritium1998  - Mao's "reforms" failed badly, and caused the deaths of tens of millions by famine
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  255. @Neptunian1000, And why were so many Pakistanis cheering Musharraf when he overthrew Nawaz Sharif? Their people have only themselves to blame for the lack of democracy in their country. They cheered General Zia, they cheered Yahya Khan, etc, etc. Pakistanis certainly aren't in favor of democracy for Afghans.
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  256. Murica needs to liberate somebody again. Will it be their northern border this time? It's Freedom Time!
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  257. All of those routes are very shaky. None has been used by China during its rise.
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  258.  @safiullah3441  why don't you ask your own PM who did a lot of griping against CPEC and its one-sided loans. You don't seem to understand that you're now on the hook for paying back $40B by 2030 - how do you expect to accomplish that? Muslims have never been great with math or finances - a fact that the Chinese know all too well, given their traditional expertise in both.
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  259. And the S-400 deal between India and Russia pre-dates the existence of America's CAATSA law.
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  260.  @sababugs1125  - Chechnya always had foreign support - why do you think the Russians attacked Georgia?
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  261.  @jakobstan1408  made famous by who else? During Cold War, it's Japan and Taiwan who used that phrase and called themselves unsinkable aircraft carriers. How are their words infamously inaccurate?
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  262.  @jakobstan1408  Jinxing -- is that your Chinese name, or your hometown?
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  263.  @lolasdm6959  when you mention China's area denial, which area are you speaking of, and what does it have to do with India?
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  264. @zkhannn, If a terrorist is living in your house, and if you are loudly blocking others who are pursuing that terrorist from entering your house, then any sane person will conclude that you are protecting the terrorist. Next you will tell me that just because you enter a bank wearing a mask and holding a gun, it doesn't automatically mean that you intend to rob the bank. If I am the bank guard, I will draw my own conclusion first, and not wait for you.
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  265. Greece is the cradle of Debtocracy
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  266.  @EduSanjuan777  - you McCarthyites gotta McCarthy, huh?
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  267.  @spyrosmitrakos5085  - translation: just call everything propaganda from Russia. When you don't have your homework done for your teacher, just blame it on Putin
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  268. ​ @Von Gröger - Finnish govt not consulting the people through a referendum, instead making a fiat decision. That's really crooked and wrong - they should consult the people through a popular vote on NATO membership.
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  269. ​ @tomAke. life - Finnish govt isn't holding a popular vote to get the opinion of the citizenry on NATO membership. Instead, they're taking a fiat decision. This shows what a low regard the current govt has for democracy and the people.
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  270.  @f-86zoomer37  - you're exactly the type who says "anti-China propaganda"
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  271. meanwhile, China waits on the other side of the Great Wall
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  272. Neither Xi Jinping nor the rest of the CCP are going to allow any kind of democracy, whether social democracy or otherwise. They don't want to end up like Gorbachev (doing Pizza Hut commercials), or Ceaucescus, etc (dead). You may remember Beijing's last reaction to demands for democracy: Tiananmen Square.
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  273. Pakistan always announces some major oil find, major natural gas find, major precious metals find, etc every year or two. It's their version of the Nigerian Prince scam. Same old racket -- why are you shilling for it?
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  274. Communism is an unrealizable goal. It's an illusion and a pretext for power-grabbers who always leave you stuck in the unending phase of socialism.
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  275. ​ @R. H.F. - same old line, from new suckers - "communism has never really been tried, let's try it for the first time" - said so many times before, always ending with the same failures. And yet more fools like you will be born, who'll say "RHF and others didn't try the true communism, we will try it for first time". Same old cycle of stupidity from new fools.
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  276.  @aaronhpa  - "capitalism" is a misnomer coined by communists. Capital is used by everyone, including communists. The real appropriate phrase is "free markets" as contrasted with centrally controlled markets under communism/socialism. Free markets are naturally evolved, and aren't the result of some ideology or imposition. So no, they've not been tried over and over across time, they've always continuously existed since time immemorial.
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  277. I think the Russians will be fine with negotiating a settlement based on a neutral Ukraine. I think that the war will ultimately also prove to be too costly for the West to continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtOx6dW_0vU
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  278. They always had some socialism going on, but it's only increased due to lack of vision on the right.
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  279. ​ @Filip Tůma - NATO is oriented against Russia. Naturally, Russia will object to such an arrangement. The question is why does NATO continue to exist when the Soviet Union no longer exists? The answer was provided by NATO's original framer, President Eisenhower, who darkly warned of a military-industrial complex which fed off war. So the goal is to treat Russia antagonistically, and when Russia responds in kind, then cite that as justification for hostilities, in a never-ending loop of Cold War. Meanwhile, Biden and his spokesperson Psaki publicly welcome "stiff competition from China". So China's glass is treated as half-full, while Russia's glass is treated as half-empty. Single-minded focus on Russia as a central threat while ignoring the rise of the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party govt, in spite of the fact that China's economy is an order of magnitude larger than Russia's. This lopsided asymmetry is a recipe for disaster. Nixon's overtures to China were meant to contain the Soviets, and helped to make China into the huge economic dragon it is today. I'm reminded of President Theodore Roosevelt's private letters confiding that he had supported Imperial Japanese militarism in order to distract Russia in the Far East. What could go wrong? People found out at Pearl Harbor. Later, Carter's National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski thought it would be a great idea to support jihadists to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. What could go wrong? People found out on 9-11. Likewise, in the years and months to come, people in Taiwan may find out what else can go wrong, when it comes to current US policies.
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  280. ​ @mioszduby2842  - that's nonsense. Certainly the Russians feel threatened by NATO. Look at how NATO destroyed its defensive founding charter by attacking, invading, and occupying a foreign non-member country. Look at all the color revolutions that have swept eastern Europe. Look at the rioting that conveniently erupted in Kazakhstan during Putin's faceoff with the West. Mere coincidence? I think not. Likewise, look at the non-stop ethnic rioting that engulfed USA when Trump asked NATO countries to pay their fair share. Look at how Trump was accused of being a puppet of Putin, under the flimsiest of pretexts. There's something strange going on, here. It looks like Cold War hardliners are manipulating politics to prosecute the Cold War, which they've become irrevocably invested in.
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  281. ​ @Miłosz Duby - I think Russia is legitimately concerned about NATO expansionism, which is primarily being done through fomenting of civil unrest, as was seen in Kiev in 2014, and more recently in Kazakhstan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2XNN0Yt6D8 Since Russia's conventional military is more powerful, the Cold Warriors in the West don't want to provoke a direct military showdown, and instead want to proceed by the "color revolution" method of ousting govts through civil unrest. Even the govt of Trump faced similar threats when he dared to demand NATO countries pay their fair share, and was suddenly targeted with a witch hunt that claimed he was the stooge of Moscow. This was followed by non-stop ethnic rioting, including over statues from an American Civil War that ended 162 years ago. It shows that far from being the leader of NATO, America is really just its vassal state.
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  282.  @9876karthi  - India has domestic mining companies. Look at India's exports and you'll see how much is mined and sent abroad. Fussing and nitpicking over Adani won't change that fact.
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  283. China should stop producing and distributing fentanyl precursors
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  284. Commies currently in the Whitehouse these days -- one of them even called for price controls recently China is the world's largest economy, and Russia has a flat tax rate which America has never been able to achieve Iranians are theocratic and not atheist. The North Koreans are the only true communists, as proven by their hereditary dynasty (something US elites aspire to)
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  285. or it could encourage mass immigration from around the country into that nest to balance out its demographics
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  286. US has outsized presence because it has the ability to unilaterally create war in Europe. What was Victoria Nuland doing in Kyiv in 2014, just before the Maidan street coup that overthrew the elected govt? Creating conditions for war. What did Woodrow Wilson do when he intervened against Germany in WW1? Created conditions for more war. Washington warmongers get away with this because they know that victors get to write the history books. They just have their minions in the fake news industry declare any critics to be "QAnon" or "Kremlin agents".
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  287. CaspianReport, The Pak civilian politicians are mere puppets of the military, and never do anything to oppose it. The French leaders of the Vichy govt in WW2 German-occupied France were only puppets, and never did anything to oppose the Germans. In both cases, the civilian politicians do not truly represent an opposite side to the military rulers. There is only one side - the Pak military - and the civilian face is just a false front.
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  288. I don't think Canada would be allowed into the alliance, because it would then have to be called CAUKUS That may also be why France wasn't allowed in, for similar reasons
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  289. When you see the Ukrainians begging for tanks, and now even jets, then it's pretty obvious they're running out of gas. NATO is going to rupture soon anyway. Ignoring all the backlash within its ranks only makes the situation dicier.
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  290.  @denpadolt9242  the reality is obvious - link was provided. Justin Trudeau is a mental lightweight who picks cabinet ministers using frivolous criteria like 'diversity'.
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  291.  @Asking-cn6wb  Justin Trudeau seems to be trying to resurrect political alliances from the 1780s and the early 1800s: https://www.sikhmuseum.org.uk/portfolio/the-anglo-sikh-treaties-1806-1846/ If Justin can't bring himself to focus on Canadian politics, then he should leave Canada, instead of trying to meddle in other countries from afar.
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  292. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XjnfLY4ho
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  293. Isn't that part of a Nintendo franchise?
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