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

  1. ​ @l3eatalphal3eatalpha Astute!
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  2. Isn't Orthodox Easter next week? I'm genuinely asking.
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  3. Are you kidding? She is obviously stupid.
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  4. Only Western European country that might want to, but NATO would prevent it undoubtedly.
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  5. Le Pen is not smart enough.
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  6. 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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  7. Except that non-Western truly means something, and Russia is not Western.
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  8. To the ketamine crowd and baby mamas everywhere . . . Get a grip.
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  9. 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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  10. There will be fraud to prevent that.
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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13.  @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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  14.  @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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  15.  @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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  16.  @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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  17.  @pausereflect5911  I know what the West is doing: colonialism by another name.
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  18.  @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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  19.  @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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  20.  @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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  21.  @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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  22.  @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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  23.  @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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  24.  @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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  25. 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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  26. ​@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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  27. Why was I just censored here?
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  28. 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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  29. ​@roslyntchakedjian927 OH. PLEASE. Fine if it's entertaining for you, but I hope you don't believe it.
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  30. "Regime change" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Well, obviously, Russia needs a Biden to take the reins.
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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33.  @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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  34. ​ @silvanaacevski 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  35. @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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  36.  @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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  37.  @FelixRoseAs  My replies to you are going poof, as well.
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  38.  @harrymills2770  I did. I'm not redoing it.
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  39.  @svetlanak7766  It's true. Russia defeated Hitler. The winner was America.
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  40. 💯
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  41.  @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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  42. 6:55 These reserves would get sent back to Ukraine and then disappear? Paging Hunter Biden.
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  43. 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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  44. 10:24 They certainly have enough biological research labs. Financed by the USDoD.
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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. Avoiding 2008 would have helped preserve the New World Order a little longer, yes.
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  48. Now, now. Let's not be hasty. No one wants a war over her.
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  49. 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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  50.  @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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