Comments by "Luis Aldamiz" (@LuisAldamiz) on "Is America Stealing TSMC?" video.

I must agree: Taiwan could never be defended against mainland China and all the USA is doing is to salvage what it can for itself, not for Taiwan.
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I'll bet it's an unfounded rumor. Or, if it ever had any reality, it has alredy become obsolete: the current trend in Europe is dramatic deindustrialization to the benefit of the USA (much like Taiwan's but at a much larger scale), all that under the Ucranian War pretext (unsure if destroying Russia was also a true goal but that has failed, but destroying Europe has been revealed as a true goal of Washington in this conflict for sure -- and the subservience of our "leaders" and press is truly scary, I feel like a slave ant).
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@michaelscott5653 🤣🤣🤣 Sorry, nope. It's about the US imperial monopolystic capitalism ordering its pawns to do what best fits US imperial interests. Remember: the Vanguard Group (and its sockpuppets Black Rock, etc.) owns everything that matters in "the West". In this case however the major stakeholder is Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., another US multinational, until last year directly led by Warren Buffet personally, who seems to still control the corporation in spite of his retirement as CEO.
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@didiermontagnier6114 - I can look at the map and as far as I can assess it's a matter of conquering five cities, all them ports and in flat lands. Fortifications are truly 19th century stuff considering that they can be easily razed by whoever holds air supremacy (it's air rather than sea what matters the most, even landings cand be done in terms of parachuting to a great extent). The rest is mop up. The real issue is that those cities are inhabited by Han Chinese and PR China almost certainly does not want to make too much of a massacre and thus prefers to wait for an ideal opportunity, preferably a peaceful Anschluss (which IMO won't happen unless mainland China first goes through a regime change but regardless). But, assuming Beijing is not worried about civilian casualties and causing all kinds of urban massacres, then there's nothing that Taiwan can do to impede the takeover. What we observe in the (not really too comparable but still somewhat comparable) case of Ukraine is that a regime willing to use civilian population (ethnically akin to that of the invaders) as human shields can actually deter to some extent the attack and limit occupation that way. However it cannot deter the devastation of all kinds of infrastructure and, in the case of Taiwan, the effective naval siege by which not a single needle can go through once established. So I'd say that the most likely scenario is not an invasion but a long sustained naval siege cum destruction of all infrastructure, forcing eventual surrender. In this sense it's not very different to what we see in Ukraine, except that Ukraine has a lifeline connecting it to Poland and Taiwan would have no lifelines (and and much smaller and surely much more fickle population anyhow).
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The deep reason behind all this is just the same why German industry is moving to the USA: the Empire is in crisis and is "looting" its colonies/protectorates/vassals to survive a bit longer. In the case of Taiwan, it's clear that the USA fears very strongly a mainland Chinese takeover one way or another and knows it can't nor will defend the island (nuclear war is a no-no and for all legal purposes it's an internal affair of China, the only internationally acknowledged China, which is Beijing), hence "relocalization" of strategical production to the imperial metropolis makes all sense, both from a geostrategical viewpoint (much easier to defend such key assets) and from the viewpoint of "making America great again" or rather relatively affluent again at the expense of its allies, be it Taiwan, Germany or whoever else that is "expendable".
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@eirikarnesen9691 - Nah!
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@eirikarnesen9691 - Why are you calling me "coward"? And why should or would or even could defend Taiwan even if I wanted? I'm a 54 y.o. myopic European man who has zero training in weapons or military discipline and would surely spend the first bullet in whoever is in charge of recruitment if I was ever drafted. If you're going to die stupidly, at least kill the culprit first, right? As we sung in my youth: "soldiers of all countries, shoot your bosses". But regardless, the USA won't defend Taiwan, or rather... it will defend it by sending toys on a lease until the last Taiwanese only. That's the reality and the reason is that the USA won't risk nuclear war for petty matters, which are for all legal purposes internal affairs of China (whose only government recognized by the UN is that of Beijing). Would there not be nukes, we'd be already in a world war (not sure if WW3 or WW13 but a WW anyhow) but there are nukes and thus wars must be "cold", contained, limited and by proxy.
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@eirikarnesen9691 - I do analysis, not propaganda. You shut up, demagogue!
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@eirikarnesen9691 - LOL, I don't care about this empire or the other. And nope: the USA is declining as empire, it had to be. However China is also ripe for a democratist revolution of some sort IMO. Things will change: it will be hard while they don't, but they will eventually change for the better (or Humankind will go extinct, that's also a possibility, sure).
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@eirikarnesen9691 - My generation? Well, not me at least, I was too young (by a few months) to vote in the referendum on accession to NATO but I was active in the "no to NATO" campaign already. My country voted "no" to NATO but, being a stateless nation, it was imposed to us anyhow. I'm not hiding anywhere. I am still very honestly to destroy NATO. Europe for the Europeans! Yankees go home!
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@eirikarnesen9691 - There's no such thing: there's globalization, which is pretty much the same as Capitalism or even Civilization itself, we like it or not. It's being going on for at least 500 years, since my compatriot Elcano first circumnavigated the planet in search of spices, in search of pretty much the same Silk Road that "globalizing" PR China is promoting and was promoting long ago as well. Some (campists or neo-Stalinists) imagine that there is another similar thing called "imperialism", and sure thing there is but it's not the unipolar thing they imagine (they may be neo-Stalinists but they seem like they never read Lenin) but a multipolar "game" between hierarchically organized capitalist blocs for the resources and markets of the world (mafia wars if you wish but global scale and legalized). This is not essentially different from the so-called Great Game or the overall Imperialism of a century ago that Lenin correctly analyzed in 2016, just that instead of Britain we have the USA and instead of Germany we have China, the trends are the same anyhow: it is underlied by monopolysm and it tends to all-out war (just that nukes impede it, something that did not happen a century ago). Similarly you people in the right wing, imagine that there is one such thing as "globalism", attributing willpower to what is just an inertial and pretty much inevitable process. There is no such thing and both the USA and China are global (and thus somehow "globalist") superpowers. Ultimately it matters little which one wins, just for the paperwork to be written in English or Chinese maybe (but probably both languages anyhow, along with maybe others like Spanish, Arabic or Russian). However it's very possible that neither wins. After all WWI caused the Russian Revolution, the second great revolution of history, there's a good chance that there will be a third one in few years. Where exactly? It's anybody's guess, but my own guess is that it will have a global dimension. Enjoy.
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@eirikarnesen9691 🤣🤣🤣
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@eirikarnesen9691 - Whatever man: the conversation is over bc you're not interesting.
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@eirikarnesen9691 - You're not just a waste and a boring parrot but also insulting: blocked!
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Ahmed and his excavator dredging sand around that Ever Given megaship is truly a prophetic sign of our day. Luckily the Suez Canal is made of sand, would it have been rock... we might still be waiting for our Ali Baba Christmas gifts.
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And that's why wars only happen wherever disruption is intended or where there's nothing that really matters but "expendable" human lives. In the case of Ukraine it's the former: it was largely meant to disrupt the economy of Germany and Europe in general (also Russia's but they were better prepared and reacted well) but in the case of former Yugoslavia, as some Montenegrine politician told me once to have been told by a US diplomat/spy: "your country has lost all strategical relevance", the Montenegrine replied: "I'm glad about it", to which the CIA man cryptically answered: "I wouldn't be happy if my country lost its strategical relevance". A month or two later war broke out.
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@DDragon501 - Ha! I've been paying attention, very much attention, to all kinds of politics, and very especially European politics, which are pathetic if you ask me. More and more people agree with something I've been warning about since the ascent of Trump, whose MAGA ideology means only make the US Empire into a classical colonial empire and thus force Europe to pay greater and greater tribute because the subcontinent is otherwise useless to the USA (except maybe for some logistics re. the Mediterranean and such). I would have expected that the defeat of Trump meant a more pro-European policy but I was very wrong and gradually everybody is seeing it as I did soon after the Ukraine conflict reignited in February: the real goal is to turn Europe into a classical colony even more stringently than Trump dared to do: buy everything from the USA (or otherwise US-approved providers), including low quality fracking gas at several times the price of that from Russia or Algeria. The industry can't afford to pay such prices and is one after another closing: the largest aluminium industry in Europe closed, the glass industry Duralex closed, etc., everything is closing, even the Large Hadron Collider had to close operations, Europe is going the way of Africa or rather the way of Africa before they became partners of China and Russia... and it makes no sense whatsoever for Europe because we have no conflict with China or even with Russia, we are just being held hostage by the US monopolystic domination of our economy (and thus media and thus politics). In a sense we deserve that because we haven't been able to defend our turf in a "nationalist" way, we just allowed everything to be bought by US multinationals and now only a socialist revolution can restore European sovereignty. It will be very hard because people is only slowly becoming aware and it will take years before the rage really takes on and things change for the better (even if very dramatically).
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - USA protects nothing at all: it's a mere PROTECTION RACKET: either you obey and pay or you will be attacked, destabilized, muredered, etc. by "someone" (who is always the USA but pretends not, call it Gladio Network or whatever). Europe is in very bad shape under the thumb of the USA and it's getting worse and worse by the day.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - Total nonsense. Not just Russia is part of Europe (unlike the USA, they use metric system and normal traffic signs as well) but the USA has inherited the vicious policy of England of fighting continuously against any hope of European unification, even via fascism. Stalin was a much better option... except that Stalin was a wimp and never tried to do anything straight, always pacting shitty deals and betraying socialist forces again and again. Who put the fascists in power? The Anglosaxons. Who defeated the fascists? Russia/USSR (in spite of Stalin's gross naivety about Hitler's colonialist plans against Russia) and several communist guerrillas in Italy and the Balcans. Anyway, that's almost "ancient history" by now, today's Russia is a weak second tier power (even if nuclear... but even North Korea and Pakistan are nuclear today, meh!): their performance in Ukraine shows they can't conquer much even if they try very hard (they can still devastate infrastructure by mass bombings but that's something that even pitiful USA can do and often does and has little tactical merit), their intel is poor (else Maidan would have never been allowed to happen), they spend massive ammounts of GDP in the military and they can barely defend their interests right near home, and their ideology is indistinct from that of Poland: homophobia, reactionarism, ultra-capitalism -- they are just less racist/xenophobic and less borderline nazi however, and they respect basic war ethics, unlike the Ukrainian nightmarish nazi regime that we're being forced to support at huge cost. We owe NOTHING to the USA, we have no clear threats (maybe Poland does but Poland should be "brexited": they are utter nazis) and we need no "protection" whatsoever (the European military is quite powerful in fact and could be even more so if it did not depend so much on purchasing almost only US ultra-expensive junk). The problem is that the USA and its multinationals hold an almost totalitarian control over the European economy, media and therefore politicians and that, therefore, the European political class is weak and despicably treacherous. The result is a complete disaster unfolding as we speak... but it will not last, eventually people will rise up against such colonialist oppression. Yankees go home!
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - You assisted one side: the Entente (GB-Fr) and you did so for your own reasons and at your own rhythm. It's not very clear if it was help needed at all anyhow (i.e. "had" my need to be replaced by "did"): in WWI Germany defeated itself by means of a revolution (echo of the Russian one) and in WWII the USSR was doing pretty well on its own and even managed to reach Berlin against fierce Nazi resistance before the allies, who had basically a Nazi red carpet of surrender before them. Why did the Nazis surrender to the Anglos? Well, chew on it, I guess, but it was for the very same reason that the Anglos recycled the Nazis into their own puppet secret services, be them the German BND or the Ukrainian nazi organization that has finally taken over the country, or in general the horrible Gladio Network that keeps tight control of Europe and makes false flag attacks all the time. Why was Hitler always hoping for an Anglo alliance? Yes, he ranted a lot about it, it was not just nutcase Hesse but a wider pan-Germanist ideology, which of course had many adepts in the high echelons of Anglo countries from Ford to the British royal family. Why were the Italian fascists in post-war helping to forge Israel? Because (in their own words) "Israel is a fascist state". And sure: the USA was less involved in the forge of Israel than later developments may suggest (and the USSR was horribly implicated anyhow, some say that Israel would never have been consolidated without decisive help from Stalin and his hubris). In any case the USA is not good for Europe NOW, and that's what matters. But worry not: I don't just blame the USA, I primarily blame our own European "leadership", which is pathetically treacherous and spineless. Why does get Putin admiration? Because he represents to some extent that spine that otherwise European politicians lack almost invariably, some call that "statesmanship". Still a right-winger ultracapitalist but at least some sort of actual leader. Not sure what you mean by "bread lines": anyone who knows a bit of how was life in Eastern Europe before the 1990-91 implosion, knows that it was fine: products had general quality (less so hyper-diversity), people had homes and jobs (effectively zero unemployment) and TV was educative, go figure! (education in Eastern Europe was very good in general). The only problem they had was that the leadership had stagnated, especially under Brezhnev, and reforms arrived too late therefore: too late and under mediocre leaders like the late Gorby. But what happened next? Disaster! Yeltsin for 8 years: total looting of the common goods and restoration of capitalism, even if in Russia at least they managed to secure it in national hands more or less (elsewhere foreign corporations took over). Russia largely lives off gas and oil but the money does not anymore go (except for a trickle) to the Russian people, it goes to a handful of oligarchs. The Berlin Wall collapse was a disaster and we knew it already, my favorite Punk band sung about it with great sadness: "come jumping the Berlin Wall... I'll tell you the truth: I don't know why you bother, I'll tell you the truth: there's nowhere to run to".
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@toi_techno - Ireland is expensive and not the best reference. I presume those are gross monthly salaries (else the Irish net avg. salary is 1000€ less, social security and income tax are expensive), so I'll list some avg. gross monthly salaries that are absolutely competitive vs Taiwan in Western or Southern Europe (no need to use Polish zlotys): - Spain: 2046€ (only 400€ more expensive than Taiwan but it can get even cheaper): - Portugal: 1679€ (assuming € = $, approx. correct, exactly as costly as in Formosa), - Greece: 1355€ - Slovenia, just south of Vienna: 1393€ - Croatia: 848€ (surely the cheapest EU country in terms of workforce costs, even cheaper than Bulgaria and with lots of Titoist technological expertise: no kidding, Yugoslavia was by far the most advanced Mediterranean country back in the day).
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - You're not reading what I write, I'm not reading what you write either. Anyhow you're a very biased propagandista of your own homeland worst imperialist instincts. Bye.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - Exactly what I meant: that all the USA does is a "protection racket". What's the problem with relying on Russian gas other than the USA dislikes it? It was NOT Russia who blew up Nord Stream, and you know it.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - You mean New Puerto Rico? Maybe they were in charge of the operation, judging on what Truss texted to Blinken, but the evidence of transponders points to US and Swedish ships rather. In any case Westminister is just a pathetic dependency of The Pentagon and all three suspects are coincidentally the same that conspired to arrest and torture Julian Assange. We have a serious problem of foreign interference here in Europe not at all different to the one suffered by Latin America for more than a century. Unless we wake up, we're done for good: Europe will never again be free nor prosperous, much less sovereign.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - It already is. European sovereignty is nothing but pretense. Much as the Macedonians first and the Romans later would pretend to "liberate the Greeks" over and over, so does the USA with Europe and we, modern Greeks, follow the same path to utter nothingness.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - It already does by colonialist means: we can only buy US (or otherwise US-approved) products, just like the 13 colonies had to buy expensive tea from England. You just don't understand how the USA taxes, not just Europe but the whole world, with their oil-backed privileged USD currency, with their continuous blackmail. How do you think that the USA can have 25% of the global wealth with less than 5% of the population? Seriously...
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - ... but worry not: from such heights you can only go down, and that's already happening. In fact the growing colonial "taxation" of Europe happens because the USA is losing control elsewhere and needs to squeeze the residual empire as much as possible. It won't work anyhow: Europe will revolt and go independent, maybe not all of it but most will. NATO will collapse in this very decade: the Ukraine farce was just the last (and quite disastrous) attempt at keeping the "brain dead" organization alive: it may have worked in the short term but the price paid is so huge for such a pitiful gain that it won't matter in a few years. Already now people is not anymore concerned about Ukraine but about eating and heating, about keeping their jobs as industries have to close, etc. Ironically Britain, the most lackeyish regime, is the first to implode, even before France, which has clearly the most determined struggles in the mid-run: millions of British workers are walking out in strikes, led by NHS nurses. Destroying Corbynism seemed like a great idea, right? Well, now the revolution is headless and needs no head, and without head it can't be controlled nor defeated anymore. There's no more real opposition? All the better: because that means that there's clearly no alternative within the regime and that the regime has to be toppled radically. And it will be.
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@T51B1 - I don't see any Russian extorsion, all the opposite: I've seen very clear Russian constructiveness and some mild countering of US extorsion, notably in Syria (yet another westernized secularist country the USA and Turkey wish to destroy, like Iraq, Libya or Socialist Afghanistan, and unlike the Gulf theocracies or all those annoying Islamo-fascist guerrillas the USA, France, Turkey and Morocco use against legitimate but sovereign African governments. By comparison whatever imperialism Russia or China may exert appears like a very helpful lifeline against US unleashing of terrorism and destruction of Western values of secularism and freedom by Islamo-fascist and also Nazi forces in the case of Ukraine-Poland (and generally undercover in the Gladio thuggish network, full of nazis and other fascists since the very end of WWII). Who murdered Petra Kelly?, who jailed and tortured Julian Assange?, who owns Gitmo concentration camp?, who armed and unleashed the Islamic State?, who destroyed multiethnic Ukraine?, who attacks Venezuela and Cuba? The USA and not Russia. I don't like the Putin regime but compared with what the USA does it is a very benevolent and constructive force, really. The USA should pull back to its own borders and leave us alone, that would be a most interesting development for the better. But of course it won't happen: the USA "needs" to control Eurasia and Africa in order to try to stay the richest country on Earth (after some tax haven microstates like Luxemburg). However that won't happen either: the US century is clearly coming to a close.
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@T51B1 - Even before the recent spikes in military spending, the European military forces were already among the best on Earth, clearly too strong for the absolute lack of threats we face (they're mostly neocolonialist forces and ersatz for US nightmarish interventionist projects). This may not be so much the case of Germany but that's because Germany has been historically pushed to keep a low profile in terms military (what makes sense after WWI and WWII) but countries like France, Italy, Greece, Spain or Poland have massive militaries perfectly able to take charge of their defense and much more. That's actually the core reason why the USA "needs" to control Europe, else it would lose its influence in the Mediterranean Sea (and by extension the Near East) and be challenged in the North Atlantic Ocean even. In fact the most natural ally of Europe is not the USA, nor it is Russia: it is China and/or India: other "rimlands" with no competing interests. That's one reason the USA is making its worst to destroy Europe forever. And I fear it may well succeed. As Kissinger said apparently: "being an enemy of the USA is dangerous, but being its friend is deadly".
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - Uprise, no rise up. Uprisings are costly... but necessary.
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@T51B1 - Anyway: if in the future evidence of collusion between Washington and Moscow for the utter destruction of Europe is found, I won't be surprised: neither great power wants European unity, both share an interest for Europen fragmentation and degradation, precisely because both understand that a united sovereign Europe can only be China's and/or India's ally in the great game of Imperialism (global competition for markets and resources). However it is obvious that Europe's interest in this big game of Imperialism clashes much more with that of the USA than with Russia's interests: after all Russia has the resources Europe wants and both are markets for each other's exports. The USA is not happy about that and has been conspiring against our very much European interests. The worst part is that our "leaders" have been bought and/or coerced into high treason against Europe. That's bad and is very much a neocolonial curse we suffer.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - LOL, you're very ignorant about the history of revolutions, really. Read more, be less arrogant.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - Just look at how the Russian Revolution (among others) unfolded. Guess that fasting leads to revolutionary illumination, it's in the Bible somewhere, right?
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - First we will have to get rid of the procurators, kicking the US marines out is the easy part, everybody does it, the hard part is to get rid of the native collaborators pretending to be our legitimate leaders but working for foreigners.
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@user-pd9ju5dk5s - USA alone hasn't invaded anything bigger than Panama since the Korea War. In fact this comes about often in discussions: US military is weighted towards the heavy side (for example: lots of aircraft carriers, which need protection, and thus needs lots of "auxiliaries", which other countries (usually Europeans but also Japan, Australia, South Korea, etc.) provide. But anyhow: you don't seem to realize how large and populated is Europe, even if we ignore Russia. The USA hasn't ever invaded anything nearly as large, the most comparable instance was Mexico in the 19th century. You just don't seem any sort of realistically able to actually judge your own capabilities, you're just brainwashed like a North Korean.
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