Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "The Duran" channel.

  1. @RobertGrzybowski-bb9gf  If you've never been there, you don't know.
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  2. "When is this guy leaving?"
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  3. You would have thought Adolf himself had come back from the dead and been elected an MP.
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  4. Average lifespan was mostly influenced by lower suicidality (self-harm of all sorts, including vodka abuse) and lower maternal mortality rates. America's maternal mortality is higher. I was stunned to read it, and checked it. Twice. Please see for yourself.
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  5. Exactly. Now he will have no responsibility. The government will be paralyzed.
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  6. Well said. Melenchon is the hardest working of the bunch, which still counts in France. But you put it perfectly.
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  7. 😂😂😂
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  8. Yeah, but who would buy that comic?
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  9. Oh no, 🤣
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  10. Puberty blockers
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  11. Yes. He needs more Athens.
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  12. Excellent question
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  13. Putin is addressing Russians and other non-Western peoples, who appreciate the stylistic elements, stoicism, and refrain from personal attacks that you highlighted.
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  14. ​ @sisaket33 Spain is opposed to Kosovo independence. Trump might have some vague memory of someone saying something offhand about Spain.
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  15. Wow, Alexander Mercouris looks fantastic, rejuvenated. This is astounding.
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  16. ​@urrywest Yes, this always happens --- at least to normal people. He will be back to his baseline in a day or so. Replying to your second comment, of course. Your first comment is just weird.
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  17. It was an exceptionally despicable act. No one does such things unless they are deranged.
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  18. I think he just misspoke. The rest of the sentence indicates that.
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  19. But they harm millions in the process. Maybe that's their aim?
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  20. @kaimanyu586  I did not know how far we had "progressed" on our way to the sub-sub-basement . . . So far so fast. I'm only half joking. Yes, I was stunned.
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  21. As soon as I saw "Otpor" signs, I knew what was up.
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  22.  @LovettGolf  The success of the BRICS "depends heavily on western . . . security?" That is whistling in the dark. Western security depends on maintaining the petrodollar. These are the debtor nations now.
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  23. @harrymills2770  Looks like yt doesn't want you to see a certain reply.
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  24.  @harrymills2770  Cents erred . . . D
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  25. Not Orthodox Easter yet . . . We haven't had Passover, and that always comes around Good Friday for Orthodox Christians.
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  26. ​ @victorswiercz8203  Why did he wish Ghislaine well? Why is he wavering on H-1B visas? 🤔
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  27. ​​ @megalodon6108  He's a hard worker. I appreciate that.
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  28. Shhh, we're being watched here! 😂
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  29. I understand.
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  30. Depends on whether Joe's babbling is weakening financial markets. That's all that it depends on. War, as such, does not affect the global financial "elites." Losing Congress is already baked in. That was evident within weeks of the inauguration, and likely desired.
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  31. Sure we can select presidents. Well, you and I can't, but the people that count can.
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  32. ​ @vaska1999 This channel has a lot of realists. Thank you for allowing us to exhale.
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  33. I wasn't shocked. Well, I don't have a television . . . 😅
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  34. The man who . . . WILL NEVER go against the WEF, and will NEVER roll back the pension cut. Poison pill for Marine Le Pen, yet she is actually going to swallow it. One must laugh. Alexander: exactly right again. One of his best.
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  35. No one wonders whether Sinwar was a double agent? You do know most of these people are. But who knows in this case. I am just incredulous that it never crosses anyone's mind.
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  36. Anyone who falls for Elon and Vivek has just betrayed their gross lack of acumen. A normal high school girl in old Chicago knew who to avoid. 😂
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  37.  @pausereflect5911  Oh please, NATO has bombed my family, and I frankly would not be surprised if they engineer that again. At this point, I'm expecting it. I know about NATO, the CIA, and all the rest -- well, as much as we can know, given that they operate in the greatest secrecy that has ever obtained in known history. Of course NATO has been the main aggressor all along. I'm still right about these past eleven months. Every war and every escalation of a war that can be avoided must be avoided, and you don't know whether it can be avoided or not until you try.
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  38. To stop Le Pen, "they've created chaos" --- as if Le Pen in the (non-absolute) majority would not have been chaos. The responsible thing would have been "to allow Le Pen to govern?" No one prevented her from persuading the voters to vote for her party. Having said that, great analysis overall. Lots of perceptive observations that no one else makes, yet perfectly true. (What's up with these other analysts? Why don't they know any of this history?)
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  39. ​ @luziosalles324 People voted to renegotiate the pension rollback. Le Pen just showed that she has no interest in addressing pensions, either. Looks like Le Nouveau Front Populaire stands with the people after all.
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  40.  @harrymills2770  What a shame. It was good.
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  41.  @harrymills2770  Just as factual and cogent as yours, I assure you.
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  42. @sisaket33  I agree. But he remembers some negative buzz from somewhere about Spain. He doesn't know why it was said. Maybe something like, "Putin puppet." I could think of other things.
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  43. Facebook?
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  44. I know! Amazon!!
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  45. ​ @NDJ1978 John Campbell has PhD in Nursing. He taught nursing, and was a consultant on nursing policies and practices all over the world.
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  46. @luffebassen  You asked. Or at least you implied some curiosity, by knowing something about him but not knowing his name.
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  47. ​ HunterBiden2032  You joined last week, Hunter. How's tricks? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  48. THIS
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  49. This took me a minute. 😂
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  50. During the BRICS+ summit, Lavrov used a version of the slogan "diversity, equity, and inclusion," ironically of course --- while surrounded by a truly diverse group of diplomats. I don't think anyone there was trans, though . . . 😂
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  51.  @lukarancini1630  There was no "genocide." There were war crimes. You throw that word "genocide" around easily. That is not wise.
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  52.  @australiaprisonisland9156  Tariq Ali put together the definitive book of essays on the bombing of Yugoslavia, and Oskar Lafontaine's speech transcript was probably the best one. But you won't read it. I can tell.
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  53.  @gMan-kx3zy  Ha. Montenegro is a sweet piece of real estate for the West. Western banks are looking to loot Montenegro exactly like they looted Greece. Two things about Montenegro: it is very Westernized, this is true -- and it's "organic." Montenegrin culture matches Latin Europe (Italy, France south of the Loire, Spain, Portugal) to a remarkable degree, and has for a long time, and yet the ordinary person is pro-Serb and considers himself a "Serb." It's an odd place. In truth, it has its own history and culture. It's almost a Latin country that speaks a Slavic language, even more so than the Dalmatian coast.
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  54.  @australiaprisonisland9156  Serbia has Catholics, Muslims, and Jews as well. Belgrade is a cosmopolitan city.
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  55.  @michaeloconnor9465  If it has real information, count on it. You aren't supposed to know things. You're supposed to jeer.
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  56.  @michaeloconnor9465  It must have been informative.
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  57. No one should accept it. We should DEMAND solid evidence. It could turn out to be true, but until someone produces solid, compelling evidence, no one should accept it.
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  58. You are minimizing the achievement of NUPES. The coalition was an achievement AND more important, its current spokesmen are compelling. Who else do you see who has truly well-spoken young people anywhere in the West? The very question makes me 🤣.
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  59. Moolah 💰
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  60. Le Monde puts Melenchon slightly on top, with only five outright winners, of which four are with Melenchon. Record abstention.
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  61. Nah, bring them to the US. They fit in well.
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  62. Goats are such dear animals. Please find a different comparison.
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  63. They like 💰. They got 💰.
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  64. What I don't understand is why Melenchon's performance is not seen as an enormous failure. To come that close to Le Pen, to come out on top in Ile de France and Marseilles, and second in Lyon, and still lose to Le Pen, who is there due to nepotism and is STUPID, is a horrible defeat. To be that clearly superior to her in every way, to be clearly the most competent and hardest working, and still lose . . . Oh no. This is terrible. Edit: 11:25 --- voila what it means!
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  65.  @Fbglaus  ALWAYS
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  66. ​@og-up4rt Anyone who thinks Venezuela should not have to hand over its oil to the New Global Rentiers is pro-Maduro. That's how. You are welcome.
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  67.  @og-up4rt  I answered straight, but, well, suppression.
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  68. Next month 73, yes.
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  69.  @lioneldemun6033  I think Zelensky is a pure figurehead media "personality." The real neo-Nazis of Ukraine might execute him if he veers from the path they are dictating.
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  70. ​@jcr4runner Soon the homeless will have better tents. Just watch.
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  71. Mercouris is Greek and Orthodox. I would not say that is Western. Yanis Varoufakis calls himself beige. 😂
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  72. You think they've only just realized this?
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  73. At least the politicians who brought us here will not be rewarded with reelection. At least that much.
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  74. The only question I have is, how surprised should we be?
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  75. Striking how the Russians never have a problem getting along with "the global South." On the other hand, certain Westerners considered Russians "Untermensch." Seems that some still miss those days. 😅
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  76. I wonder whose false flag all of this is.
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  77. The New Popular Front has the plurality of seats in the National Assembly. This means they got the necessary votes in the most electoral districts, which gave them the plurality of seats. The overall number of votes was for Le Pen's candidates because the places where they won, they won by large margins. The same type of thing happens here when a candidate for president wins a bunch of states by a slim margin, and the other candidate wins a big state, like California, by a landslide. The one who wins the most electoral votes wins.
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  78. GLENN!!! wow❤
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  79.  @LVArturs  This is a good summary -- sadly. You did omit the fact that Ukraine has been making war on the Donbass since 2014, but overall, what you've said is on target. The US does not "act" like a bully. Their covert bullying tactics are much more sophisticated, and much less tied to peoples, lands, physical territories, and so forth. They want to control human behavior to its very depth, but without all the muss and fuss, and they are getting better at it in every round, like a self-teaching robot.
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  80. We need not imagine. We can just watch.
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  81. You beat me to it.
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  82. I think Putin is responsible for the escalation of the war, and that the escalation changed the nature of the war. Having said that, US paws are all over this one. US blame dates from the beginning of the millennium at least, and they drastically escalated in 2014, starting this war.
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  83. Yes. Suspending judgment in this conflict is more needed than usual.
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  84.  @FelixRoseAs  So, you're going to tag me when I can't reply. Figures.
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  85. @sisaket33  Of course. That is a shocking mistake.
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  86. ​​@maciedixon3983 And do you know what HSBC did to Americans, with the intervention of the UK political leadership? The Guardian reported it, in detail. Happy reading.
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  87. Well, the VERY worst rule us. The very worst are on top. Every supposed solution has been pure head fake.
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  88. More replies visible under Newest sorting tab.
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  89. So, the US economy depends on its fulfilling the role of the world's banker, and that, in turn, depends on its being regarded as credible by all other countries. Seizing assets sounds like a great idea, huh?
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  90. Seriously? I hope so, but it strikes me as odd.
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  91. Oh boy is George Galloway going to be funny on Sunday.
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  92. You give him far too much credit.
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  93. Pithy. Perfectly said.
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  94. 💯
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  95. @a How is that related? I don't follow.
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  96. You seem to discount the power of Western/Anglosphere propaganda. Think back when the USSR collapsed. (I agree with SFC that it did not have to, by the way.) The Soviets were not so weak relative to Reagan and Thatcher that they had no hope of reforming and continuing. American society, in particular, is much weaker than it seems -- and every crisis proves it. (E.g., COVID followed by waves of riots, drug overdoses, shootings and mass murders) The typical American college grad knows less mathematics and science than a European 17-year-old, or a Russian 14-year-old, and is more likely to need (really need, not feel like they need) psychotherapy. The Soviets folded anyway, because they believed they needed to spend their treasure on useless armaments. Nor did they believe the 1990s would be as devastating as they were. They were too optimistic, actually. The same thing could happen now. Look, Greece is in the state it is for a reason. It blinked. It was persuaded that it had to. Hmm . . . No it didn't. A deft combination of smoke and mirrors, plus the will to be without principles or mercy when embarking on war, keeps the dollar where it is. It's still working.
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  97.  @imsmoking_au  You and OP are so right. Yes, beautifully said.
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  98.  @australiaprisonisland9156  "Funny" how bombing Serbian cities with DU (depleted uranium), including at least a dozen that had anti-Milosevic governments in place, and put in place at real danger to themselves, will tend to make people not want to be particularly cooperative, and to ignore the wrongdoing on their own side, which they certainly should not ignore.
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  99. The top 5% have all of that. Usually.
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  100.  @Verysimpleinvesting  Of course. We are always at war and feeding war. Wars are us.
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  101. @Verysimpleinvesting  I looked at your picture. All I need to know. 😂 It's interesting that my substantive, informative reply is gone, but this ill-advised one is fine. Maybe that's why people don't know stuff? 🤔
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  102.  @sleepinglioness5754  These sheer perfidity of the neoliberal ruling class, and what they are capable of doing to the rest of mankind, has been revealed OVER and OVER and OVER. It can no longer be denied except by the deeply propagandized, who seem to have an increasing, and distressing, detachment from reality. (Check out Hillary's latest pronouncements, for example. C'est hallucinant.)
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  103. 4:12 What Trump is communicating to the Russians is some hidden weakness.
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  104. ​ @goodwill3649 💯
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  105. What is your relationship with France?
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  106. If that's what the West needs to tell its public to pacify them, what's the problem?
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  107. This is super-bad news.
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  108. Subtext: "yeah but Ukrainians are white." This is how modern-day "progressives" really think.
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  109. Yet Sweden made the fewest mistakes in dealing with the pandemic. So what happened? I am asking sincerely, I don't understand.
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  110.  @daseapickleofjustice7231  The Worldometer statistics did not show Sweden's per capita death rate as higher than in other countries, but having said that, COVID statistics are not as reliable as they should have been. The US was conflating actual COVID deaths with deaths where COVID was not the chief cause but at most a contributing factor. If Sweden (or Japan) had an undercount, I would not be shocked. New York state also had a lot of deaths in nursing homes that in retrospect look like gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional.
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  111.  @daseapickleofjustice7231  "American Israelite bio weapon?" O . . . kay. Never mind.
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  112. Everyone knows Macron is abnormal. Is he this crazy?
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  113. Perfect
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  114. It is that basic.
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  115. Old math: a majority = 50% + 1 New math: 37% is a majority!!! 🤠🤠🤠🤪
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  116. ​ @mkodyglobalsouthsoldier  "You heard" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  117. ​​ @lixicbre The scandal of their relationship is well known. Her daughter was in the same class as Macron when she was his teacher. Are you suggesting she was really the father?
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  118. ​ @lixicbre "independent investigations" What else did they turn up? A Kenyan birth certificate for Obama? An Ethiopian one for Trump?
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  119. @lixicbre  Have you ever watched an Adam Curtis documentary? It reminds me of one segment where a wacky story was floated by the CIA to test its penetration, and to discredit solid criticism. If Macron can paint his opponents as being prey to bizarre nonsense, that only serves him.
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  120. @SeraphimLeo Who do you think has the burden of proof? Prove to me you are or not trans.
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  121. @SeraphimLeo  WHAT evidence? By the way, my substantive post was censored, but you're allowed to spread this. Why do you think that is?
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  122. @SeraphimLeo  By the way, I was censored. You cannot see what I stated about this.
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  123.  @lixicbre  My refutation was censored. LOL
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  124. @SeraphimLeo  I was censored. So you don't know what I'm asserting. Is that too tough for you? Blocked for bad faith.
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  125. @SeraphimLeo Blocked for bad faith.
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  126. ​@SeraphimLeo you are fa
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  127. Big state, big army, tiny state, no real army.
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  128. My question: What is wrong with the West? Have you noticed how every member of the BRICS has been a center of Western obsession, fascination, and a source of mysterious or glamorous symbolic power? What's up with that? 😂
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  129. Insane to get themselves into this unholy mess. Then again, they are insane.
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  130. What do you think about reports that the neo-Nazi elements in the armed forces are putting huge pressure on Zelensky, and that that is actually why the US is not opposing Azov Battalion et al?
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  131.  @sk3371-l8z  Either Alex or Alexander. Thanks for responding!
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  132.  @sk3371-l8z  The logic being that the West (read: the US MIC) wants Zelensky to take a hard line not only publicly but especially in any private negotiations. If Nazis can push him in that direction, the US certainly has no problem with that.
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  133. Look up the Le Monde map of the results. Vast areas to the south and east of France had Melenchon, Le Pen, or the old center-right on top, with no real support for Macron. Astonishing.
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  134. Who? What? No one in this incident is black.
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  135. Her party came in third. That was wonderful. I was hoping the 60 Minutes profile was the kiss of death.
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  136. "Sell?" Vastly worse than that . . .
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  137. Because of the other candidate. Common pattern, no?
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  138. 19:36 All true, but how often do Greeks think of Slavs as ersatz Orthodox? 😉
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  139. ​@daveess698 But when they march out the Dallas Cowboys, and the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, then you'll see!!!
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  140. Hope so.
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  141. First Amendment Victims of defamation and similar torts can sue if they choose.
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  142. GOOD NEWS: That freak Sanna Marin is OUT in Finland.
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  143. People whose parents were in WWII in Europe fighting Nazism are a different people than those whose did not. That's what The Duran has showed me yet again.
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  144. Very astute
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  145. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  146. Excellent 😂😂😂
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  147. No. I don't remember things that did not happen.
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  148. Ireland is exceptional. They lived for so long under the Anglo-Saxon propaganda that they are not easily duped by it. They know what the Five Eyes all said about them.
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  149. ❤
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  150.  @RebeccaPerry-Piper-u8x  Money for nothing . . . Isn't that every investment banker's dream?
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  151.  @zima3181  🤣
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  152. Most Westerners appear unaware or in denial. If they close their eyes, poof! Asia disappears.
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  153. Good point there.
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  154.  @SuanLuang  That's true, too. Which of Miller's works is that from?
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  155. 21:50 This is true, sadly. A new Putin would very likely be as bad as a new Trump --- in other words, worse than the original. There is no reasonable leader who could be a partner in peace waiting in the wings. I do not understand why anyone in the West thinks so. Well, the real players know better.
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  156. To any American who is willing to be honest, and who had the usual level of insularity but is open-minded now, it must be a surprise that the non-Western peoples are not on Ukmerica's side. (To be surprised by something, one must first acknowledge it. Honest people have to acknowledge it now.)
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  157. ​ @bogdanpopescu1401  Not even close. Yanis Varoufakis explains it best. Technofeudalism Read that, and find out what's really going on.
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  158. If the US were not interfering, there would have been no war in Ukraine. If the US were not interfering, there would be no war in Gaza. Anyone who reads Haaretz and listens to the truly outstanding voices like Neve Gordon knows who the real instigator is.
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  159. So far, Putin's only clear success has been with the currency -- he proved, without any doubt, that Western financial interests cannot destroy the Russian economy using decrees and papers written in poisoned ink. Thank God for everyone on Earth that he did succeed in that (Greece, take note! China and India certainly have). Even that success was ultimately undermined by the criminal sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline. Why don't we all admit that overall, this WAR has been a disaster, for all concerned? Putin was wrong not to try to avoid this, first by calling an emergency session of the UNSC, with proof -- which he had -- of Ukrainian troops planning another, more massive offensive against the people of the Donbass. That was the only ethical course, the only place to start. He DIDN'T start there. No free pass on that, sorry. Never. How can anyone excuse not doing everything possible to avoid this WAR (not "special intervention," my GOD). Every war that can be avoided, MUST be avoided, paraphrasing Chris Hedges and many others. The sane ones, the ones with hearts, minds. To fail to do everything to avoid a war during a pandemic, just when people were looking forward to a more normal spring, was unconscionable.
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  160. Now I see what may have happened. They knew all along the laptop was real and implicated Joe. This is how they get Obama/the Clintons back in de facto control of the Oval Office.
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  161. In the US, if sheer ignorance can fully explain a political phenomenon, go with sheer ignorance.
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  162. Gave you a Like anyway. Fraud should always be considered.
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  163.  @pbworld7858  They think they had better hold the line now, and they are right.
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  164. AND MAUI???
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  165. Watch the documentary Do Not Resist. The son of a lifelong police officer made it. By the end, his father supported him. He never did the things his son documented in that film. He didn't know any police did.
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  166. So how did they get stuck with Macron, a Clinton-Blair figure, in 2022? The rest of the world is moving on.
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  167. Absolutely, so well said.
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  168. None of these countries can believe how fast the US is falling apart. Of course they are puzzled, and hesitant. No one foresaw this.
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  169. GOOD NEWS: That freak Sanna Marin is OUT in Finland.
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  170. ​ @Tallorian Well said.
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  171. @ssuwandi3240  That's not the inflation rate in Russia, not even according to Western sources. They put it at close to 9%, while downplaying the West's.
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  172. More and more of the world's people, through their governments, are clearly siding with Russia. How are the US and other NATO countries reading this? What message are they getting?? I can't fathom it. The fact that Putin should not have invaded when he did, as long as alternatives to escalating the war were still available, argues more strongly for the West having become anathema to many people. No one will consider giving the West support, or any benefit of doubt, even when they did have a point in their favor, such as it was, when this escalation began. What will happen when the US embarks on their next big adventure?
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  173. American weapons seem to be implicated in the deaths of many non-Western children around the world, the president appears senile, and its ruling class thinks everything's fine, stocks are up for the year, etc. Sure, buddy. Good thinking. Everything's coming up roses. /s
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  174. 😂😂😂
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  175. That describes no one from U of Chicago. There are stronger and weaker, yes, but no one that dim.
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  176. ​ @oliviasukamto947 PRECISELY. Putin IS a thug, and it is in the best interests of the United States to listen to what he has to say. You make peace with enemies, no? And enemies are enemies for a reason. This is exactly how an American president should think.
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  177.  @LaMangouste  lol, great. :)
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  178. 😂😂😂
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  179. You don't see through this? Seriously? Forget the stories, forget the labels, and forget the tiny coterie of ardent supporters who expect to gain when their candidate comes to power. How does a Le Pen actually function? To ensure the election of a Macron.
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  180. There were some surprising abstentions: Mexico (!)
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  181. Imagine what that's like, for the Bidens to lose a playground like that. /s
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  182. What do you mean we're not Number 1? Don't we produce the most tweets?
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  183. No good guys in this picture, but the responsibility lies mostly with the West, and within the West mostly with the US --- as usual. But no good guys in this picture.
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  184. Nice
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  185. Well, I guess he's a stable genius, too.
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  186. Why oh why doesn't every American watch this?
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  187. Lucie Castets would have revisited the pension issue. She would have brought it up for vote. THAT is the difference.
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  188. Le Pen is collaborating with Macron. Why? To prevent Lucie Castets from becoming Prime Minister, because SHE would propose to lower the retirement age back to what it was, exactly as the vast majority of Le Pen's own supporters want, and the vast majority of French want. But then, why does Le Pen resist this agenda? Because it would expose her party: they don't want a vote. They don't want to be forced to go on the record. They are for Macron's cuts to retirement, but don't want to openly vote with Macron. They want to support it quietly. Get it? Not yet? IOW, played. Again. That's what's really happening. (So much for your "nationalists," who put "the French people first.") Could it work? Sure. It's what the WEF wants, and they're rich.
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  189. Better that they don't know. Americans are very nativist and easily embrace prejudice.
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  190. The Iranians are saying to themselves good thing we joined BRICS+.
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  191. Did you know Ursula plagiarized her doctoral thesis, too? Small footnote. They are all alike.
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  192. You tell me.
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  193. Le Pen will do exactly nothing to change the material conditions of the French.
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  194. I am asking naively now. Why is no one in America talking about this? We are being told that Ukraine is winning. That China and India are pulling away from Russia. That Putin will be overthrown. This is what people believe.
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  195. I don't think any of this is real. The neoliberal globalists know the next few years will be fraught. I think they want to "lose" --- they want their opponents to be the ones holding the bag when the dollar implodes and wars escalate. In the meantime, they are planning another expansion of their monopolies. Too many countries are experiencing the very same thing. No, it's not organic.
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  196.  @shaunpatrick8345  I suggest you read the article, available in pre-print. John Campbell explained it well.
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  197.  @shaunpatrick8345  Their (claimed, or actual) intentions are not material. The virus does not know them.
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  198.  @shaunpatrick8345  I suggest to you to read something, and this is your reply? Say, have you ever heard of the Precautionary Principle? Nah.
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  199. It's more conservative.
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  200. It was a hoax, and it was also a criminal conspiracy.
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  201. ​ @l3eatalphal3eatalpha Astute!
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  202. Isn't Orthodox Easter next week? I'm genuinely asking.
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  203. Are you kidding? She is obviously stupid.
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  204. Only Western European country that might want to, but NATO would prevent it undoubtedly.
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  205. Le Pen is not smart enough.
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  206. Me, too. And my father and my mother's only brother were WWII British Army veterans. I should have been born in Europe. 😢
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  207. Except that non-Western truly means something, and Russia is not Western.
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  208. To the ketamine crowd and baby mamas everywhere . . . Get a grip.
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  209. Price freezes and rationing are ordinary measures taken during a war. Oh wait! We were not supposed to be at war, were we? /s
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  210. There will be fraud to prevent that.
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  211. I say that though I think Le Pen is wholly unqualified to be president, and has a handful of repulsive views. I still think it will take some measure of fraud to assure that Macron remains in office. He's a horror show.
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  212. Why don't we all admit that overall, this WAR has been a disaster, for all concerned? Putin was wrong not to try to avoid this, first by calling an emergency session of the UNSC, with proof -- which he had -- of Ukrainian troops planning another, more massive offensive against the people of the Donbass. That was the only ethical course, the only place to start. He DIDN'T start there. No free pass on that, sorry. Never. How can anyone excuse not doing everything possible to avoid this WAR (not "special intervention," my GOD). Every war that can be avoided, MUST be avoided, paraphrasing Chris Hedges and many others. The sane ones, the ones with hearts, minds. To fail to do everything to avoid a war during a pandemic, just when people were looking forward to a more normal spring, was unconscionable.
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  213.  @pausereflect5911  So far, Putin's only clear success has been with the currency -- he proved, without any doubt, that Western financial interests cannot destroy the Russian economy using decrees and papers written in poisoned ink. Thank God for everyone on Earth that he did succeed in that, and of course India (and most of the planet) support Putin in succeeding there. Yet even that success was ultimately undermined by the criminal sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline (by Western interests, obviously), not to mention all the destruction on the Crimean peninsula, and its effect on the Russian economy. This is a disaster all the way around.
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  214.  @pausereflect5911  P. S. Most of us who ever come here agree with your description of the bigger picture, more or less.
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  215.  @pausereflect5911  For a country as impoverished and corrupt as Ukraine to have suffered such a loss of housing stock, never mind the human toll, just as the world was emerging from the (largely Western imposed) insanity of the pandemic IS a disaster. How will they rebuild to undo just the physical losses? The people are gone forever.
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  216.  @pausereflect5911  Then do the United Nations Show. Great, I'll even accept that it is a show. You call an emergency session, you make the case, and you spell out the consequences. Who floated the story that the Russians were just doing military maneuvers and had no intention of crossing into Ukraine??
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  217.  @pausereflect5911  I know what the West is doing: colonialism by another name.
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  218.  @LVArturs  Who told you this? An anagram of ACI? Wow, I guess the vaccines stop the spread. And they are excellent for young men's hearts, I hear.
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  219.  @LVArturs  On the contrary, the initial economic sanctions of the Russian Federation were swift (no pun intended) and literally unprecedented, and at least some people in the US/UK were sure they would cause the Russian economy to implode. When it looked like Ukraine and Russia might come to some cease-fire agreement, UK intervened directly to tell Zelensky to desist. As for "slow-walking support," first, what do you call these 12-figure appropriations? Second, what do you call the sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline? Third, suppose that what you call "slow-walking" is just a reflection of the struggle in the US between the hawks and the ultra-hawks, as well as the realization by both that the "best" they can do is bleed Russia; they cannot expect to beat the Russians. It would be materially impossible, absent changing the character of the war yet again and taking a bigger risk than they are prepared to do, not to mention that it could unravel the skein in a lot of other places, including Taiwan, the Korean peninsula, Iraq, other parts of the Middle East . . . What evidence do you have that the Ukrainian military as currently constituted -- meaning without American advisors and possibly even foreign troops -- could make use of that materiel? Do you consider any of the reports that weapons shipped to Ukraine are already being sold and turning up in places like Africa credible? I don't claim to know, I claim the reports are quite plausible. Sorry, what you've said makes no sense based on the information I believe to be accurate. I will admit that we are all steeped in propaganda. For both the war and the pandemic, I've looked to background information from well before each one materialized. Only there have I found anything that strikes me as honest and clear. And I see no good guys in this picture. This is quite apart from the issue of whether the Western military-financial powers should be meddling in Eastern Europe at all. You seem displeased that they are "slow-walking support," when there is no reason they should be offering that brand of "support" at all.
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  220.  @LVArturs  The US has been fomenting discord in Ukraine for over a decade. They caught Victoria Nuland on TAPE. I mean, you sound like a nice guy. Give it up. Really. She's getting her way and getting paid, as are the other neo-cons -- are you?
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  221.  @LVArturs  So, in other words, you're biased and everything you've said is special pleading. Okay. I should have known. I didn't. I thought you were an American, so I couldn't figure out what the h*** you had been listening to. Cheers.
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  222.  @LVArturs  Except for two things: I don't deny facts, and I don't support Russia's escalation of the war. You support NATO, no questions asked, and you compose insipid rationalizations and apologetics for everything the US does. You may as well endorse THE RAT LINE. Pitiful.
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  223.  @LVArturs  Russia didn't start the war. It escalated the war to the point of changing its character. Not the same thing.
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  224.  @LVArturs  Sorry, we've already been through that. You are wasting my time. Your sedition scenario, after the US first supported a coup in Ukraine, is beyond laughable. So who, exactly, is the traitor? Maybe you live in an area that does not allow access to information. Anyway, I'm going to block you from my thread. If you were sincerely interested in the truth, you'd do what everyone who has that interest does: you would consult the preeminent sources of information on Russia from well BEFORE Russia invaded Ukraine. Stephen F. Cohen at the 92nd Street Y comes to mind, when everyone present said "you don't think Russia would actually invade Ukraine, do you?" and he answered, yes, I most certainly do think Putin might invade. Those are the types of sources I use. (He died before the recent escalation of the war began, of lung cancer. Huge loss to mankind.)
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  225. Oh no! When Alex said "shock and awe sanctions," I automatically assumed he meant for shocking the West. 🤣 But they did think the sanctions through: they are playing a game of chicken, with our lives. They won't lose a dime.
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  226. ​@amyfaith2350 Oh my goodness. This is who you think will save you? You are lost. So, just starting with hallucinogens . . . No one who doesn't use hallucinogens? No one who didn't agree to transition his son and now claims he was "tricked?" Well, to be fair, second opinions are very expensive and not always covered by insurance. 🙄 Notice I haven't mentioned his PayPal ties or his dirty takeover of Tesla or his abuse of monkeys in experimentation or his Title VII violations or his government contracts or his X CEO.
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  227. Why was I just censored here?
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  228. I thought and still think Reagan was an utter disaster, and a watershed event in the US, announcing the current decline. Moreover, Reagan was responsible for significant crimes throughout the world. I nevertheless almost fainted when he was shot.
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  229. ​@roslyntchakedjian927 OH. PLEASE. Fine if it's entertaining for you, but I hope you don't believe it.
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  230. "Regime change" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Well, obviously, Russia needs a Biden to take the reins.
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  231. This is nonsense. Yes, he compares favorably to a lot of Western/Five Eyes politicians, but you seem not to appreciate how low the bar. You cannot underestimate Five Eyes. It is not possible. Putin could have avoided this war at the time he chose to pursue it. Every war or escalation that could be avoided must be avoided --- which of course includes the arming of Ukrainian troops and militias by the US, etc. No good guys in most pictures. None in this one.
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  232. I had to laugh. And I'm a girl. Sanna looked like a freak, frankly. I cannot imagine a more repugnant political leader short of a Clinton.
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  233.  @madworldisrael7584  All the more important not to have a warmonger in any position of the smallest modicum of power, forgive the pleonasm. I want to make it real.
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  234. ​ @silvanaacevski 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  235. @harrymills2770  Guess those post-war tax rates are in order. Of course, here, the billionaires lobby for tax cuts and government contracts, then buy T bonds, and we owe them money. BTW, I know what those 700 bases are for. France doesn't have those, I grant you.
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  236.  @FelixRoseAs  You're going to go after me after I said our big brother won't let me speak? Is that a Le Penist move?
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  237.  @FelixRoseAs  My replies to you are going poof, as well.
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  238.  @harrymills2770  I did. I'm not redoing it.
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  239.  @svetlanak7766  It's true. Russia defeated Hitler. The winner was America.
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  240. 💯
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  241.  @pt17171  It has been greeted with accusations of grisely war crimes, and vicious denunciation of anyone calling for impartial investigation. Putin should never have invaded as long as all other options had not been thoroughly exhausted. War is hell. A war of choice is always wrong.
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  242. 6:55 These reserves would get sent back to Ukraine and then disappear? Paging Hunter Biden.
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  243. I mostly agree. What many don't seem to realize that if the only two states that were in fact close, Georgia and Arizona, had gone to Trump, he would have lost anyway. Court cases aside, why does anyone think he won? He did not win Pennsylvania, or Michigan, or Wisconsin. Useful Idiots had an excellent debate concerning the federal indictment for election interference last Friday --- well worth watching.
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  244. 10:24 They certainly have enough biological research labs. Financed by the USDoD.
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  245. Le Pen does not have the strategic ability to play each of these groups against each other and emerge unscathed, as the "patriot," no less. No.
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  246. A closer look at the results, especially comparing Melenchon with the bourgeois left (Greens, PS), who attacked Melechon for condemning the Russian incursion yet refusing to escalate tensions, and refusing to back away from his anti-NATO stand, shows that the French have little taste for the kind of frenzied Russia hatred characteristic of the US at the moment. You could persuade half of these people that Putin created the COVID virus.
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  247. Avoiding 2008 would have helped preserve the New World Order a little longer, yes.
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  248. Now, now. Let's not be hasty. No one wants a war over her.
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  249. No one has morals. What you have is called marketing. Yours is more rational, for the most part -- which is remarkable. Think about what that says.
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  250.  @domingodesantaclara1130  Correct. The US has failed to accomplish its immediate economic aims, but in the military aims, they are progressing quite well, or seem to be.
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  251. ​ @craigreinhart8960 Thank you for demonstrating how delusional all supposed alternatives are.
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  252. ​ @woodforthetrees3496 Exactly
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  253.  @coursecorrection870  Yes. Or neo-Nazis. NATO, Russia, neo-Nazis . . . What chance do normal, peace-loving people have??
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  254.  @coursecorrection870  That would be funny, but this is 2022; everyone expects no self-awareness.
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  255.  @coursecorrection870  I read reports about the Nazi movement in Ukraine years before this invasion. And it's weird, but because I'm an avid reader and writer, speak three languages, and don't follow The Next Big Thing, my memory isn't trashed and I can think clearly.
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  256.  @coursecorrection870  Who said it was? Lecture me. I don't know the difference between right and wrong, I don't have Ukrainian-born friends, my own parents didn't meet in a refugee camp. I need you to help me out with this, you have so much wisdom.
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  257.  @coursecorrection870  You call NAZIS "toxic." That's wild. If we weren't talking about Nazis, it would be sheer comedy. Let me ask you: should the West arm Nazis?
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  258.  @coursecorrection870  "ideology's" Just shut up.
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  259.  @coursecorrection870  This has been addressed ad nauseum. A small, heavily armed, heavily financed group that infiltrates the armed forces can have vastly more influence than the voters do, and reports that Azov-infiltrated troops were ready to shell the Donbass region again, before this invasion, turned out to be true. At this juncture, both the West and Putin are strengthening the neo-Nazis' hand, and it's doubtful that Zelensky has been functioning as a head of state, or that he even can. The difference may be (I mean may literally: hence, maybe not, too early to tell) that the West has no problem with the Nazis in Donbass, while Russia most certainly does. So . . . You reject the Right to Protect? Interesting. Or is that only an American Right, like so many others? All you've done is parrot the talking points you've heard. Is Abby Martin a propagandist? Kim Iversen, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, Anne-Laure Bonnel? The analysis of Stephen F. Cohen, from several years ago? See his interview at the 92nd Street Y, where he predicts where we are now. For Bonnel's reporting, you need to speak French, but her documentaries have subtitles. Oh, but you haven't mastered autocorrect yet, I forgot. Before thinking you should decide the fates of millions, learn to spell and write without stringing together buzz words and cliches and utter nonsense, and letting autocorrect write for you. Take a class or something.
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  260.  @coursecorrection870  Have you conveniently forgotten . . .
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  261.  @coursecorrection870  Joined two months ago. Blocked.
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  262.  @jolaholladay3150  Tip: check this person's channel. OH BROTHER
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  263. Where would you go?? Serbo-Croatian is a breeze for a Greek-English bilingual speaker to learn. Parts of Belgrade are a very authentic emulation of Paris. Serbs are more likely than Hungarians to have laudible leftist/communitarian instincts (as opposed to the evil ones). What's not to like? P. S. Greece and Montenegro are right nearby. It's no contest.
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  264. GOOD NEWS, by the way: That freak Sanna Marin is OUT in Finland.
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  265. ​@norbertgeorge7700 The Soviets restrained the neoliberal globalists from looting their (supposed) Western allies and Japan. That was its central function. The Soviets really did save Europe twice, first from Hitler, then from the US.
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  266.  @NDJ1978  Then why are your drawers in a bunch? Blocked.
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  267. I don't believe that.
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  268. "Russian flags appearing . . ." Why oh why is the West so crazed? Why can't they calm down and see other people as people? What did they expect to happen??
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  269. Btw, is NGO money trying to flip Serbia now? Did that fizzle?
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  270. That's funny. His insights just sparked new ideas on my part -- before 6 am local time.
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  271.  @72mespo  I kind of doubt that. I have journals full, starting with my days at Paris IV. I have ideas in several languages.
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  272. @elenaweintoegl4064  I'm Eastern European, "Russia adjacent." We aren't nicey nice, we're gruff. We can be oblivious to others whom we don't know, but to shirk a responsibility to a real friend is a disgrace. Only, the list of real friends is correspondingly short. Anglos are very dirty, this is true. Tony Blair-Tony Hayward dirty, and sneaky.
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  273.  @elenaweintoegl4064  I answer, yt makes it go poof. Maybe if you sort by Newest? Prob not. Outta here.
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  274.  @elenaweintoegl4064  Won't let me, or tell you they won't. Scents errr . . .
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  275. ​ @quemades If not the needle in the vein.
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  276. He said "Clinton wing," I heard Clinton RING.
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  277. 26:20 During the summit held in Moscow to welcome the new members of BRICS+, Lavrov made a quip about "diversity, equity, and inclusion," surrounded as he was by non-Western people.
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  278. ​@ZappyOh Suppose they don't come back out . . . 😂😂😂
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  279. Best wishes to you and your wife. Make time to have fun together.
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  280. ​ @Verysimpleinvesting Just the opposite. Russian resourcefulness perplexes the Americans. There are ancient texts in Latin remarking that Slavic peoples can withstand more than Roman armies could ever accept. Watch Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky) sometime. Pay attention to the "impossible" bell.
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  281. ​@Verysimpleinvesting You're allowed to talk šit, and if I answer you intelligently, quoting a classic text and an outstanding film, I get tossed. Congratulations on your freedom.
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  282. How did you go from rationality, and truly the fewest mistakes during the pandemic, to these sorts of mistakes? NATO and anglo-neoliberal-globalism are the things you least need to adopt. They aren't even in line with Swedish ethics and values; they are rogue utilitarian, not Christian, not social democratic, not Kantian. What happened?
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  283. Has the new media and virtual "living" caused people to believe we can dream up raw materials?
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  284. WIKIPEDIA?? 😅😅😅😅😅 No, that does not merit a real response. I might use it for live links in the footnotes, or celebrity astrology.
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  285. La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu
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  286.  @richardeastman9846  Kindly reply to wherever that was.
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  287. If that were the case, we in the West will never find out. We should all know the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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  288. What do the Clintons have on Obama??
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  289. Hearing the pain in his voice is hard.
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  290. WEF 1 France 0
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  291. Vučić gets along fine with China. Weird.
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  292. Someone thinks Le Pen is good? She is very stupid.
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  293. Voilà.
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  294. Who do you think led the Resistance in France, on its territory? Do you think, or just echo US Deep State propaganda?
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  295. Is anyone surprised that a man with a serious weapons felony on his record was interviewed by the New York Times and Newsweek? No one seems to have ANY idea who is reliable, competent and rational, and who is not. This is everywhere now.
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  296. During the Cold War, the socialist experiment that was the Soviet Union greatly enhanced the living standards throughout Europe by maintaining pressure on the ruling class to behave. Now, the Russian Federation, after having been gutted in the 90s under the ascendancy of Clinton-Blair neoliberalism and globalization, has come back strong and is challenging the West, which in turn is being gutted by its oligarchs. Well, the solution is simple --- we shall blame Russia. I'm not surprised current relations are worse. Bourgeois Norwegians in particular got a lot of free stuff thanks to the Soviets, back when their ruling class had to prove it could feed, house, educate, and heal everyone "just as well as the commies can, or better."
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  297.  @dougrobertson555  Shut up.
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  298. Let them eat Vogue.
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  299.  @numenoreaneternity6682  I thought Podgorica had a Latin vibe, too, but I see what you mean. Maybe Cetinje is different; I've never been. Part of any impression has a lot to do with expectations, and I frankly did not expect (and did not hope for) such a Westernized country. It's more than just appearances, though. The Orthodox Christians are the most pro-Catholic you will find anywhere. The dress, the food, the books in translation in the big box grocery stores (Elena Ferrante, who else? They were the only novels in the magazine section.). The educated people who frequent bookstores often read Italian anyway.
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  300.  @BEhistoricStudios  There was no "genocide" in the Balkans since Hitler. There were war crimes during the break-up of Yugoslavia -- which also include some staged to make it appear as though a particular side had committed a war crime when in fact it hadn't, or at least not that time. Come to think of it, though, bombing Serb cities which had well-established anti-Milosevic governments already in place with Depleted Uranium warheads simply because of their ethnic makeup, and notwithstanding their spirited resistance to the Milosevic regime, certainly smells like an attempt at genocide -- perhaps comparable to that espoused by Hitler under his Aryan doctrines? Some genes are better than others, some say.
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  301.  @BEhistoricStudios  I call it a war crime. You can call it whatever you want. First Amendment freedom for cult beliefs. See Tariq Ali's incomparable collection of essays, Masters of the Universe, for example.
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  302.  @numenoreaneternity6682  No argument there. It's not the country my father knew.
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  303.  @BEhistoricStudios  BTW, your picture is worth a thousand words.
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  304. Check which countries got Spunik V for free. That may have a bearing on the UN vote.
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  305. Alexander, you only look happy when you're in Greece. Perhaps Serbia as well, but I've not seen recent pictures of you there.
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  306. When I looked at the map of what Ukraine has retaken, it was not impressive. What's the goal here? To mire Russia in a Vietnam, or an Afghanistan, if you will, but with existential stakes? I take nothing at face value in any of this. A proxy war is not an ordinary war. The decision of Russia to escalate the war in the first place, creating a sea of refugees on the heels of the pandemic, and then its failure to conclude it by May 1, is already an immense disgrace in my book.
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  307. ​ @yurichtube1162 pfft
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  308. I had heard that maternal mortality in Russia is considerably lower than in the United States. I was surprised, somewhat incredulous, and checked the claim very carefully. It's true.
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  309. What is your relationship with France?
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  310. @Verysimpleinvesting  No, the US-led coup started the war in 2014. Russia escalated it and changed its scope and character. I don't believe it had to have, not at that juncture. Abby Martin and Chris Hedges are basically correct.
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  311.  @Verysimpleinvesting  You say your war materiel investments are going well . . .
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  312.  @evolvedape3341  This guy claims Putin is behind Hamas.
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  313.  @Verysimpleinvesting  No, my substantive post is the one that was deemed unacceptable. The nonsense one got through. Get it?
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  314.  @Verysimpleinvesting  See how your insults are fine, too?
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  315. There was a strange case of a disturbed mother in upstate New York who killed her toddler and buried her body, and when the community became determined to find the child, the mother started to believe she could be found alive. Hillary reminds me of her.
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  316. Le Pen? Her role is to ensure a Macron gets into office. Do you seriously believe she herself wants to be President, or that those who vote for her in the first round are expressing something more than a protest, such as genuine support for her? Mitterrand was the last President of France.
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  317. BRICS+ vs. LGBTQ++ Do we laugh or cry? Better yet, turn the page.
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  318. It was simply a statement of no change to the Russian Federation nuclear doctrine. The search for subtext is based on the fact that Putin simply chose now to restate it at all. Makes you wonder who or what he was possibly responding to.
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  319. Now we know: Pelosi really will say anything.
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  320.  @BooDamnHoo  A default triggers other events that they surmise will hurt Russia.
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  321. I cringe at bringing this up, but I heard it mentioned by a reputable person who is acquainted with Putin, so . . . I hope it's all right to raise it. What is with the rumor that Putin is seriously ill?
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  322. This is correct.
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  323.  @michaelsnelling3338  Exactly. Every last one.
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  324. The US expects to be able to freeze and seize assets and impose sanctions all over the world, AND have its dollar remain the most desirable global reserve currency. Because a country that offers financial services to the world, and depends on offering such services for health of its own GDP, need not perform those services properly. Of course not, how silly! In other 🤡 news . . .
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  325. My thoughts exactly.
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  326. Too many similar things all at the same time . . . I don't think any of this is real. The neoliberal globalists know the next few years are fraught with danger. I think they want to "lose" --- they want their opponents to be the ones holding the bag when the next collapse comes.
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  327. I was watching Aude Lancelin and this is what I gathered: Le Pen is collaborating with Macron to prevent Lucie Castets from becoming Prime Minister, because SHE would propose to lower the retirement age back to what it was, exactly as the vast majority of Le Pen's own supporters want, and the vast majority of French people want, regardless of party. But then, why does Le Pen resist this agenda? Because it would expose her party: they don't want a vote. They don't want to roll back the retirement age. They don't want to be forced to go on the record. They are for Macron's cuts to retirement, but don't want to be forced to vote with Macron, for all to see They want to support it quietly. IOW, played. Again. That's what's really happening. Could it work? Sure. It's what the WEF wants, and they're rich.
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  328. I think this could be a turning point in the war. If Russians keep a cool head and take this event in stride, it could turn out to be a slight positive. If the recriminations start at home, and wild, unthinking retaliations are visited on Ukraine --- which is what usually happens in war --- then all bets are off.
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  329. Je suis montenegrine, et je suis aux E-U. Je vais partir pour Montenegro l'annee prochaine. Les E-U sont insupportables. Je ne peux plus vivre ici. C'est tres violent, et cruel.
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