Comments by "US Debt Implosion" (@timcampbell2023) on "Geopolitical Future of the World" video.

  1.  @EconLessons  cost of living is increasing significantly (and will continue) and the younger generations of workers are experiencing a crisis. Maybe not yourself but you had the benefit of living from 1980 to 2020 as the height of US prosperity. Other will not be so fortunate to have that advantage. You are saying that there is no basis for the populism other than Russian interference, I don't find that to be true at all. I remember what happened under Obama, and it is only amplified under Biden. They tried or are trying to destroy our nation and impoverish the middle class. That is the basis for the populism and nationalism.
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  2. I'm one of the ones calling for peace. Western democracy and its military industrial complex is just as imperialist as the autocratic capitalist east - both sides would like to dominate the world but we are deglobalizing into a multipolar order, the west cannot prevent it. Each side will have to learn to settle their differences or there will be no end to the bloodshed and human suffering. As divisive as Russia is, every advanced nation in the world is engaged in the scientific manipulation of the masses, it doesn't make sense to not see that. American propaganda is far and away the most advanced and heavily funded. Are you suggesting might makes right and that only our propaganda tells the truth? Control, domination, lies and manipulation is evil regardless of who is doing it. If you equate Putin to Hitler and use that as your basis for refusing negotiation then the outcome could be more tragic than Britain trying to negotiate with Hitler. Chamberlin was at peace with Hitler, Russia and Ukraine are annihilating one another. Russia has a lot more people than they do and Ukraine will run out of people long before they do. They are completely different cases. If peace negotiations fail, then they fail but if there is success lives are saved. But if you never make an attempt then it is a complete failure. Our printing press is turning Ukrainian soldiers into cannon fodder and the war machine lobby doesn't want it to ever end. You don't acknowledge these things but they are out in the open for everyone to see, the corruption and injustice, the brazen shame of it. There is a system being enriched by their blood and the destruction of our currency. Its a brutal reality, but there it is. Calling Putin Hitler is unhelpful, nor is it accurate. Calling Russians orcs is too ad hominem, they are part of the human family and no different than any other person caught up in the tragedy of war. They are human, why demonize? There are good and evil people on both sides, it's person by person. Why not acknowledge both sides have their positions for why they are doing what they are and assess with balance and work from that point... towards the end of bloodshed. You will never reach peace by calling the other side subhuman and demonizing them. "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." - John Paul Sartre
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  3. Populism and nationalism is an exaggerated response to policies and conditions that are making people's lives unlivable. Russia seeks to co-opt those movements, they are not the cause of it, they seek to benefit by misdirecting it or benefitting directly, because the same powers operating against our national interests are operating against theirs as well. This does not erase the underlying conditions. The political elite are enacting policies hostile to its people, that is the cause. Whether it be open borders, gender confusion and sexual anarchy, energy scarcity policies, endless wars, currency debasement, etc., they are the direct cause and they seek to dispel it (populism/nationalism) by whatever corrupt means they can because it is a direct existential threat to their power. The senate today would not pass a Ukraine spending bill because they had to take measures to secure the border. It shows you what is most important to them. They would rather keep the borders open than send money to Ukraine, that should be very instructive for all.
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