Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "The New Atlas" channel.

  1. The Murdoch rag called "The News of The World" (Now defunct, I believe.) said it was : "All the news fit to publish" Brian is giving us all the news that the likes of TNOTW consider unfit to publish. Thank you for a straightforward analysis of the situation, it is very much needed and so very welcome!
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  2. 24:50 How are the F-16 going to give Ukraine the edge over the Russian Airforce? Well! That's Easy! They are American! So of course they will! How could it be otherwise?
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  3. Very powerful and persuasive stuff! Particularly the last few minutes. You "tell it like it is". Well done! More power to your elbow, keep up the good work.
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  4. There is a joke: "Why will there never be a color revolution in the USA?" Answer: "Because there is no American Embassy in Washington!" No connection. Poster seen last year in Chinau (Capital of Moldova) "Free, Expert Advice - Contact the Embassy of the United States of America."
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  5. 1:09:48 There is a similar disaster shaping up over the (desired) war with China. The same underestimation of China's capabilities, its military's morale, its weapons, its defences, civilian support for the government and all the other mistakes that the CW made over Ukraine, they are making over China, including ignoring the crucial role that China plays in their own supply chains!
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  6. Very clear exposition. Thank you for you research and putting it out to the wider public so clearly.
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  7. 12:31 Reuters is owned by Rothschild.
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  8. Thank you for this video. Lies about the CPC go back to well before 1/10/49. The campaign started almost from the time the CPC was founded in 1927.
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  9. 15:50 "They were decimated" No. They were not 'decimated', they were largely destroyed. "Decimated" means they lost 10%. Hence the word.
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  10. 18:40 "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" (Muhamid Ali)
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  11.  @carolynzaremba5469  As a Christian priest once said to me "The essence of religion is Faith." No doubt, he was right. But "Faith" is the belief in things that cannot be proved. (If you can prove something there is no need for faith to believe in it.) So, establishing a religion is establishing at least, some irrational thinking and it is thin end of a wedge. Once a wedge has been inserted, all sorts of irrational thinking can be shoved in behind it!
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  12. I 1:03:57 I think the Key Underestimations, from before the war was provoked, were Russia's military, capability, its army's morale, and the productive capability of the Russian war industries. These mistakes were compounded by a lack of understanding of the constraints affecting the West's capabilities.
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  13. A very well-constructed denoument. "Watertight" one could say. All statements given references. Thank you Brian, for such a well-researched opus.
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  14. The fishing dispute betweenBritain and France could not "Spiral out of control" because both nations are armed with nuclear weapons!!"
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  15. Thank you, Brian! That was a very and interesting report that you gave there. I don't think most people in the west, even those who are generally opposed to the US's foreign policy, realize just what a ruthless and evil group are running the US.
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  16. Very clear and useful info. Thank you for all your work!
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  17. 17:57 "Low Russian morale". The fact of the matter seems to be, that the US has very little in the way of reliable informants inside Russia. Some three or four years ago, the Iranian intelligence discovered the US's means of communicating with their assets in Iran, via the internet. Having cracked it, and rounded up the whole network, they eliminated it and then shared their discovery with Russia and China. Since then the quality of information from inside these three countries has been very poor.
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  18. 30:54 I agree with almost all you say but Navalny was in prison for IIRC, fraud, a business fraud. He was given bail on that charge and then violated the terms of his bail. That, not some political offence, was why he was in Jail.
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  19. 34:53 To say that Ukraine cannot be N*ZI because it has a Jewish president, seems to me to be an overtly, obviously racist statement.
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  20. 16:07 They also have to transport the shells to the front line, which has "not always been that easy"! (Litotes.)
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  21. 29:20 The US has been doing this ever since WW2 ended.
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  22. 2:16 "seven thousand tons annually" ? Really? 7,000tons? Are you sure? It sounds like the sort of quantity that might be handled per minute by, say, Shanghai. Of course I realize that this is a much smaller port than Shanghai, but that much smaller? I rather doubt it.
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  23. 14:00 No offence intended, merely fyi: you consistently (mis)pronounce "exacerbated" as "exasperated". Exacerbated means "made worse". Exasperated means "made angry".
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  24. This USA is a real cancer at the heart of the World! Until it gets its comeuppance, there can be no peace, because it will cause war, for as long as it is allowed to do so. The core of the problem, is a relatively small but rich and powerful group, whose greed is trully boundless, who profit from the MIC and control the government. They also control the MSM and the educational system, to the extent that the great mass of US citizens are abysmally ignorant and can be led by the nose.
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  25. Of course, the chief opposition to nationalization of the Defense industry, will come from (Drum Roll!) the defense industry!
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  26. 38:02 The British government realised this need to have a government owned arms manufacturing capability in 1880! And set it up, using machinery sourced in Massachusetts. (I think they forgot it in 1960, though)
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  27. I can't hear you.
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  28. 19:02 The "competetive advantage" the defense industry is interested in, is not over the Chinese or the Russians, it is rather, over the other Western companies in the same market place.
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  29.  @jonbon8598  Thanks for the info.
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  30. 41:59 "Transistion to clean energy," in spite of the opposition of the Big oil companies! In spite of the US's inability to compete with Chinese solar panels without (perhaps even with) huge import tariffs. It's nonsense.
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  31. 5:35 General Zalujny's request for weapons reminds me of the Folk Song "Scarborough Fair". If you don't know it Duckduckgo is your friend. Happy NEW Year to you Brian!
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  32. Very informative, thank you.
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  33. I seem to remember that the F-16 burns up 600lbs of fuel an hour, just sitting on the runway, warming up its engine.
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  34. I agree with almost everything you say about this war; however, I think you seem to have too high expectations of the MSM! The MSM is not primarily, a distributer of information. No. It is primarily, from its inception, a means of making money and hence, distributing information is strictly a secondary activity and not neccesary at all, except to keep the readership/viewers interested. There is, in addition no great penalty for distributing misinformation, "fake news", or outright lies. The only thing they really have to avoid, is spreading real information, that the powers-that-be want to suppress.
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  35. 43:53 Any such effort to win over the "G;obal South" (GS) has been well and truly aborted by the Israeli actions in Gaza! The whole world has had its nose rubbed in it an the US and Israel find themselves isolated as never before. Even the UK is openly torn between holding its nose and siding with the rest of the World in the face of the horror unfolding inGaza and on Al Jazeera.
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  36. 4:21 In what way is the US policy "In the interests of the US"? To me it seems a ridiculous polcy and one which threatens a disaster, how big a disaster is anyone's guess!
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  37. Quite clearly, this process for winning elections, can be applied inside the US itself. Easier than in foreign countries, because there is no opposition to overcome or to outwit. No opposition from the government!
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  38. "Shadow" admits in this interview that they were sniping from an "apartment block". Exactly what the Russians accused the Ukrainians of doing.
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  39.  @koala6016  A really, really horrible dictatorship, propped up by the "Oh! so Democratic and Oh! so concerned with Human Rights" US!
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  40. 37:00 There was another "intelligence failure" before 911 too! What a coincidence!
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  41. You can see how unreliable Putin is: First he said there would be no "No-Fly Zone" over Ukraine and then he imposed a "No-Fly Zone" on the basement of the Azovstahl!
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  42. 13:38 The fact that the Collective West is running out of materiel to send to Ukraine PROVES that up until the beginning of the SMO, they had NO FEAR that the Russians were going to attack them. So, all the talk about their "fear of Russian Aggression" was just that. Talk, propaganda. If their fear had been real fear, they would have had large stockpiles of weapons and weapon-systems all ready for use and masses of military men who knew how to use them. More lies, in fact. Who is surprised?
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  43. "How can it be that there are N*zi units in the Ukrainian armed forces when President Zelensky is a Jew?" Is a racist question. Being a N*ZI is a question of Ideology. It is not governed by genetic material. Being a Jew is largely a question of geneology, i.e. if your mother was Jewish you are a Jew, irrespective of what you believe.
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  44. 7:38 I have heard that the Kinzhal in flight sends out misleading signals which makes it look to radar, as though there is not one, but six Kinzhal missiles coming. I suggest that perhaps the Ukrainian operators saw six Kinzhals coming and when only one arrived, they assumed that they must have destroyed the others!
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  45. It occurs to me, that having a capitalist economy builds into a society, a fundamental conflict of interest. It means that one has to have, at the very least, a mixed economy and preferably, in addition, a government which will suppress the political ambitions of the richer members of the capitalist class and protect the working members of the society. This is particularly evident in the cases of the arms industry, the pharrmaceutical industry and the healthcare industry.
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  46. It is absolutely characteristic of reactionaries, that they over-value territorial gains and care far less about people than they should.
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  47. 30:56 And they used Al Qaida as their proxy, to carry the responsibility for 911.
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  48. 9:51 It is not often I disagree with you, but I don't agree that the US objective of "Containing China" began around 1965. Even just after the end of WW2 when Chiang Kai-shek was fighting the Communists in China's revolution, the arms that Washinton gave to Chiang was just about enough to stop him losing (Or so they thought!). I think the fact is, traditionally, Great Powers do not want new Great powers. I don't think for example that Joseph Stalin was all that keen on having another Great Power in the World, even if it was another "Communist" power and therefore, presumably, an ally. The US thought, (I think) that the fight with the Chinese Communists would leave Nationalist China so exhausted that they would be very dependent on the US and Stalin started the Korean war and then backed out of it, believing that the US and China would weaken each other to his advantage, making China dependent on the USSR. As things turned out, it is clear that they both grossly underestimated the Chinese Communists and People. (Washington still does.)
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  49. 6:15 Tien An Men was a color revolution too.
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  50. Am I right in thinking that refurbishment is an inherently dangerous job? Isn't it a bit like rendering unexploded ordinance safe?
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