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

  1. China has the geopolitical heft to broker an Iran-Afghan agreement :hand-purple-blue-peace:
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  2.  @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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  3. 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 It seems like Shanghai Cooperative Organization is dead, having been superceded by BRI.
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  4. "wrap yourself in the flag" vs "false flag" ?
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  5. 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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  6. ​ @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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  7.  @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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  8.  @user-up1ny  Indian empires like the Mauryans have existed since long before the British arrived.
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  9. Axis of Feeble
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  10. 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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  11. But I thought arctic was always owned by China since the KaChing dynasty -- just look at the 99-dash line
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  12. ​ @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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  13. Don't you mean Oceania? There are only 3 powers in Orwell's novel.
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  14. ​ @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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  15. yeah, but the bigger the weapon, the more damage the dangerous men can do
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  16. @1:57 - I assume you meant 2.5 million barrels / day
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  17.  @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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  18.  @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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  19.  @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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  20. ☀Portable sun - built in a cave, with a box of scraps
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  21. Well, there goes the neighborhood
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  22. 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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  23. Meanwhile Washington DC seems to be run like King's Landing
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  24. 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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  25. Tell us about the new US-Mekong partnership, because that looks very interesting
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  26.  @freemanol  - overall population levels are low, though. Even central China has ghost cities.
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  27.  @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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  28. ​ @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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  29. ​ @Freeman - no, I see that you are trying to blindly make assertions and using dubious examples in support of them.
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  30. @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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. dude, I've viewed a number of your reports, and they're quite good please keep doing them
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  34. China isn't doing random charity work. They're expanding their tentacles to grab South China Sea.
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  35. Hah, tell that to Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, The Squad, and other Democrats 😅
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  36.  @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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  37.  @elmohead  - look at the sources - better than CCP
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  38.  @elmohead  - exactly, and neither are these wumao who keep squawking on their behalf
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  39. 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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  40. @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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  41. Manchuria
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  42. pro tip: these "transition" phases never end
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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. I measure the expansion of my waist by Belgian chocolates
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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48.  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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  49. 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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  50. You may be forgetting Pakistan's army
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