Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Emil Cosman" channel.

  1. You could go on to mention Kholomoisky, Victoria Nuland, Kuleba and Poroshenko, to name just a few. (8)
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  2. 1:30 You are absolutely right! You cannot talk about "Democracy" if oligarchs control the supply of information!
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  3. "It doesn't allow competition" For once you are talking ignorant rubbish. About half the Chinese economy is private, The private sector makes about 40% of the GDP, employs about 60% of the work force. There is consequently a lot of competition. You are making a typically western mistake, you think that China is modelled on the USSR. It's not and it never has been. From well before the declaration of the PRC 2/10/1949. the communist part of China, has had a mixed economy, part state, part cooperative, part capitalist. The Chinese Communists, realized from the start of the revolution that they could not plan everything and it would be a bad idea to try, so they nationalized the foundations of the economy and left the rest to private enterprise. The result was many more of the peoples' needs were catered for than happened in the USSR. At the same time they ensured that the foundations of the economy, food, education, transport, electricity, medical services, roads, railways, canals, water supply, the military, the police and so on were under government control or were government owned, but most consumer goods were made by privately or cooperatively owned firms. By the time I went to China, I had visited many of the countries in the Warsaw Pact and I had also been to Moscow and I knew of the poor selection of goods available or missing in those economies. I had worked for a while in the DDR, so I was rather surprised on first seeing China (In 1964.) The first thing that struck me was that everything looked freshly painted in bright colours! Then when I went shopping there was an amazing selection of goods on offer. It formed a rather odd contrast to the people, who at that time were all dressed in blue or grey Mao suits. But the variety of goods was certainly there. Now, of course, there is "rampant capitalism" as is, I would have thought, pretty well known. The difference from the West is that the capitalists are not allowed anywhere near the levers of power. Those that get carried away by their huge wealth and think that they can tell the government what to do, get put in their place fairly quickly. E.g. Jack Ma.
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  4. 6:55 Reminds me of something that was told me by someone who fought in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. He said that the first thing they had to teach new recruits, was not to act like the guy in the recruiting posters, who was bravely rushing forward with his rifle, bayonet fixed, or waving a handgreade. We had to explain to them that the best, practically the only, way to advance was on your belly, as quietly as possible. Sometimes they were quite difficult to convince!
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  5. 9:16 I think this is characteristic of modern Western weapons. A Russian pilot I read, said that Western fighter jets were beautifully made, like Swiss watches, but like Swiss watches, very delicate. When I was an infantryman, for the first part of my service, we used Lee-Enfield rifles that, I should think, were of no later than 1914 vintage. I don't remember one of them ever going wrong. Towards the end of my time we were given FN (Belgian made) rifles which were lighter, easier to carry and fire, were self-loading, could fire multiple shots. (IIRC, officially, you could fire up to three shots in a burst, but if "fixed" it with a matchstick, you could fire the whole magazine (10 shots) in one burst.) It was more accurate, in match shooting on a firing range too. However, in a sandy environment it was forever jamming.
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  6. 8:37 The Ukrainians hold three nuclear power plants and the Russians have not shelled one of them. It is , of course, true that they have attacked their connection to the grid, but that is another question.
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  7. 14:10 Dropping A-bombs on Japan was not done to "Save our boys' lives", it was done to stop the USSR invading Japan and it was done to see what effect the bombs had on a city and frighten the Soviets.
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  8. Who else? Serbia.
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  9. In the Korean war, I was told by British soldiers who had been POWs in camps run by the Koreans, they lived largely on black beans, which though very dull were reasonable nutritious. Their American comrades however died on the same diet. I myself though a soldier, never saw fighting but on one exercise in Sennerlage Heide, Germany we came across an American Army camp, and were amazed to find that every tent had electricity and gas and water which came out from the nearest town about 3kms away through a sort of cable/pipe thingy.
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  10. You are so correct! Almost all the trouble in the World is caused by the warmongers in this relatively small group that constitute a closed loop consisting of arms mfgs, lobbyists, congress critters, USG, and back to arms mfgs. The taxpayers are robbed by the USG to feed money into the loop and the shareholders take some out and use part of it to pay lobbyists as do the arms mfgs also. Since this vicious circle is immensly profitable and very wealthy and ruthless in dealing with anyone who wants to break it up, it is very stable. Perhhaps, when Russia has decisivly defeated the US, among their conditions will be to break it up. Who knows? One can but hope!
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  11. I am British, I have travelled extensively in Europe and I once went to China. I regret to say the only place I have ever seen a bedbug was in London.
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  12. When the USSR broke up there was a referendum in Moldova and the majority voted to stay with Russia. This result was ignored and Moldova became independent. The people in Transdniestria did not accept that and that area broke away and a war broke out between the ruling groups in Chishinau and Tiraspol. Russian troops came in to keep the peace and are still there. Before Stalin grabbed Moldova from Romania, there was a republic in the USSR called something like the "Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic". I don't know how extensive it was, but I think that Transdnistria was the westernmost part of it.
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  13. As I have said elsewhere, in view of the definition of "Democracy" as being the "rule of the people by the people" and seeing that the definition of a "populist" is a politician whose policies or proposed policies appeal to the broad public, using the term "Populist" as a term of denigration or in a dismissive way, is Anti democratic.
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  14. When I was a child(a long time ago) there was an advert by the Wool Utilization Council, (of the UK) which proclaimed: "There is no substitute for Wool!" I oftern think that equally, or perhaps even more so, "there is No substitute for Information!". Alas, it is easier to find wool than reliable information. People like you and Alex and Alexander and Earl Grey and Gonzalo Lira,, ScottRitter, Jason Hinkle, and some half-dozen others are doing a really valuable service in providing different points of view from the MSM. In addition I find that the picture can also be filled out by WION and VFT although they are rather anti-Russian- and very anti-Chinese biased, do provide another view on the situation which is different from "our" MSM and consequently valuable. So, of course do Press TV, TASS and Global Times. I find the MSM almost unreadable because they usually strart off any article with such whopping lies that one feels inclined to disbelieve everything that follows and it feels like a complete waste of time.! Also, unlike the MSM which seems to get its "Information" from a very few sources such as "an anoymous spokesperson for the State Department or Bellingcat or No.10 Downing St, you alternative sources collate, for internet browsers like myself, vastly more sources of info than I could ever hope to do. Thank you very much!
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  15. 7:17 Don't forget about Diego Garcia! It was not just taken by the British, but was "cleansed" of its population and handed over to the USA as a military base, which is still there in spite of a UN resolution telling them to give it back to the people who were living there before they were evicted.
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  16. When the USSR collapsed, there was a referendum in Moldova to decide whether people wanted to remain part of the Russian Federation or become independent. They voted to remain part of the RF. The vote was, (Surprise, surprise!) ignored. There was, when the USSR was formed, and before Stalin got what is now Moldova, a Republic in what is now Ukraine and Transdniestria called the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova (or some such). When, post USSR, Moldova was declared independent the part that had been part of the SSRM (Transdniestria) fought to become independent of Moldova and there was a civil war. I do not know how it ended but it did and the peace was kept by Russian peacekeepers and has been ever since. Last time I saw it, about four years ago, it looked very peaceful, well-run* and moderately prosperous.
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  17. 3:00 The word you were searching for is "superlative". E.g. absolute = good. Comparative = "better". Superlative = "best".
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  18. Another example of "The Rules Based International Order". (We make the "Rules and You obey them. Or else!)
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  19. 1:44 I think it was you, Emile, that called the Baltic countries "The Baltic Chiwawas". That was about right! I live opposite a house, that has a very small dog, that I name as "Odio Tutti", who barks very loudly indeed, at everything that moves in this vicinity.
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  20. Isn't Putin calling the Western governments "Partners" a bit reminiscient of characters in old Coyboy Movies, calling each other "Pardner"? Even though they were shooting at each other ?
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  21. This is the first, second & third type of lie all in a couple of sentences. There are three types (as far as I am aware). Type 1. "The lie direct". A plain, straightforward untruth. Type 2. "False suggestion". Saying something which would lead someone who is not "on the ball" to think something that is not true. Type 3. Suppressing the truth. Not talking about something important or censoring truthful reports about an event or a person.
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  22. The thing about officers in the British Army is that they all come from Wealthy families. I discovered this,when I was, for a couple, of years a soldier in the British Amry myself. The way it is done is very simple. A second lieutentant, is the lowest rank of officer and his pay is less than what he has to pay in "Mess Fees" , which are compulsory for him. This means, that If someone wants to be an officer in the British army, he has to have someone to subsidise him until he has a pay-grade high enough to allow him to pay his mess fees. The result is that a lot of British army officers are of very mediocre intelligence. I know. I have met some of them. I have served under them. In two years service, I met one really intelligent officer (I heard tell of two others) and one moderately intelligent one. The rest struck me as either moderately or very stupid.
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  23. It's not just the Ukraine, nor is it confined to the State Department, it is the Collective West.
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  24. 2:24 I saw a Hindustani Times report of the attack on the "Harry Potter Castle" in Odessa that said, in passing, that it was hit by the debris of a Russian missile that had been intercepted.
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  25. "Too defensive". In the UK, I don't know about the US, there is an oft-repeated quotation from Shakespeare, from the Play MacBeth; "Methinks she doth protest too much!". In the play, Lady MacBeth is accused of a murder and is protesting her innocence and this remark is made by an onlooker. ("Methinks" is an archaic way of saying "It seems to me." "Doth" Is an archaic conjugation of "does". If I am "teaching my Granny to suck eggs", I apologize, I do so because English is not your first language.)
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  26. 1:22 Interesting choice of words! "/when you have false confidence . . . . . .you think you can do things that in fact you can't" This is, I think the exact description of the effect that cocaine has on people. Now the Thames Conservancy (a charity looking after the river Thames in London) says that the fish and other wildlife that lives in the Thames, is suffering from cocaine poisoning. This must mean (I think) that the inhabitants of London are using a vast amount of cocaine. Since coke is very expensive, this must mean that the rich and powerful in London must really be over-powdering their noses! If this is true in London, it is probably true in other Western capitals. Could this be the reason for the scene you are describing? I think it could.
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  27. That could be an improvement! Could hardly be worse.
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  28. I think what you are talking about is the "Integrity Initiative" set up by the "Institute for Responsible Statecraft" which is an outgrowth of MI6 and other agencies of the 5-eyes. It has its assets in every newsroom in the Collective West, to tell the Chief Editor on a daily basis, what is fact and what is misinformation.
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  29. Or as we used to say in the British Army, "Nil illegitemos carborundum!"
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  30. 13:16 Your complaining about the US yelling about other peoples' morality, while behaving immorally, reminded me of a story I heard many years ago. It seems there were two diplomats in the UNGA, sitting next to each other and when they went back to their hotels for the night, they accidentally took each other's (identical looking) briefcases instead of their own. One of the diplomats had that day, given a very passionate speech. When the other diplomat opened the briefcase he had brought with him, he was amused to find the text of the speech that his fellow delegate had given that afternoon. What struck him particularly was one section of the speech which was underlined in red, was annotated in the margin: "Weak Point! SHOUT!"
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  31. 5:23 The point about airfields is that Western airfields are always super clean! Every morning the pilots who are not actually flying at that time walk up and down the runways looking for anything that the jet engines of their aircraft might pick up and suck into the engine. Even small pebbles have to be removed as they could damage the turbine blades. Russian airfields by contrast are not so clean. They do not need to be, because their jet fighters, have grills in front of the engines which catch such debris. US pilots who have visited Russian airfields, have been appalled at "How dirty" they are. As, until now the Ukrainians have been flying ex-Soviet jets, their airfields are, probably, also dirty.
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  32. This sounds like projection. I have heard of the same thing happening on the Ukrainian side. I am not saying that this is not true but the Ukrainska Pravda is not noted for its veracity.
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  33. Obviously the troops should go barefoot!
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  34. 8:38 In 1939, Britain declared war on NAZ* Germany, not because it was Extreme Right-Wing but because it was a rival to the British Empire. In fact it wanted parts of the British Empire. The hope in London and Washington at the time, was that the USSR and Germany would fight each other to exhaustion and the Western Allies would then come in and mop up both.
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  35. 6:40 You could say that the silence is shouting the name of the guilty party. If it were anyone else, it would be in the headlines for months.
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  36. 8:15 I don't know if you know the Shakespeare play "King Henry V"? Anyway, in one of the scenes HV is giving his troops a peptalk before trying to retake the French town of Agincourt and he says: (IIRC) "In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility, but when the blast of War blows in our ears, imitate the action of the Tiger, stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage!" Seems like the same idea.
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  37. I saw just now (Saturday morning ) in AFP, that the Russians have "Won a symbolic victory in Avdiivka". (!) "Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the frontline city of Avdiivka to avoid being encircled, new military chief Oleksandr Syrsky said Saturday, handing Russia its biggest symbolic victory following Kyiv's failed summer counter-offensive." How quickly Avdiivka went from being "of great strategic importance" to being "Symbolic"!
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  38. The International Rules-Based Order 1) We make the rules and you obey them. 2) The Rules are secret, until you break them. 3) The Rules do not apply to us. 4) There is no way to appeal the Rules.
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  39. I think that originally "Speculation" was a form of divination, IOW fortune telling. It involved sitting in a dark room between two parallel mirrors, which gives the illusion of an infinite space with an endless row of candels and sitters going off into the far distance in both directions. This (sometimes) induced a dream- or trance-like state in which one could (you hope!) see into the future. Speculation from the Latin word for a mirror, Speculum. Probably, as a Romanian, you know all this anyway.
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  40. It could be true, on the other hand, many of the Ukrainian government stories are just that, stories.
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  41. 5:34 A good lecture on the Class structure of society, for the politically naiive. When I did my national service in the British army, it suddenly struck me, on maybe the third day, that the Army was a sort of caricature of a class society.
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  42. In the British army there is/was a song that went: "The CO kicks the Major. The Major has a go. He kicks the poor old Captain, who kicks the NCO And as the kicks grow harder, It's plain for all to see: They're doing it, me lads, To save Democracy!"
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  43. 4:03 "NATO is not a defensive alliance." Absolutely NOT! I challenge anyone who says it is, to give an example of NATO defending anything or anyone. Every NATO action has been an attack.
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  44. 11:18 Yes I think those plans were drawn up in advance, but I also think that whoever did the planning, really messed up! It seems that these plans were drawn up, not on the basis of real, solid information, but on the basis of propaganda memes and wishful thinking.
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  45. The US even requires Cuban medical doctors to go to school in the US and pass exams, before they can practice in the US, in spite of the fact that the Cuban training is superior to the US training.
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  46. It is commonly said by people who know both countries: that in China if you complain about government nothing happens but if you complain about policies they can and usually do change. In the USA, by contrast, you can change the government, but the policies stay the same.
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  47. I don't always completely agree with you, but this video is 100% correct. Very good analysis.
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  48. Talking about "Good Dude - Bad Dude" transformations: look into "OPERATION UNTHINKABLE" and how the Greek partizans, who were heroic allies of the British and Americans all through WW2, became Enemies as soon as the Germans were defeated and how the Brits and Americans teamed up with the N*ZIs to install a fascist regime in Greece. Look into the murky history of how the British MI6 cooperated with the French Communists, all through the German occupation of France until a few days before D-Day, when they betrayed them to the Gestapo. Those stories are only a small part of the betrayal of "allies" of the "Good Guys".
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  49. When the USSR collapsed there was a referendum held in Moldova that voted to stay in the RF. It was ignored.
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  50. The importance of this statement by Reznikov is, simply that it unequivocally contradicts, repeated statements out of the West, that "Russia is attacking Ukraine", without reason, without justification. Multiple statements that "The Russians have No Reason to attack Ukraine" and so on and so forth. The Media war is an important part of this war, particularly in the Collective West, and that is what gives this statement, by a Ukrainian Minister of government, its importance, which, Emil, I agree, comes as no surprise to me or you!
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