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

  1. 12:42 What the US is saying to China is: "Stop helping Russia! We want to defeat and plunder Russia so that we can defeat and conquer you next. OK?"
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  2. 10:59 It is fairly clear that "What Netanyahoo wants" is a Jewish state, inhabited exclusively by Jews, whose borders encompass everything mentioned in the Torah as being Israel and no Palestinians anywhere.
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  3. The Kamala Harris announcement that she is the presidetial candidate, reminds me of the US announcing that the Pesident of Venezuela is Juan Guiado!
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  4. 24:05 The hostility to Iran in the US has been sedulously stoked over the years by the MSM and by Israeli politicians.
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  5. There is another problem impacting Germany. They used to have a very good system of small, local banks which were very helpful to small German businesses. (I think they were called "Landesbankes") They were the foundation of the German industry and enabled it to remain stable, through good times and bad. These are now disappearing, being swallowed up by big banks which have far less interest in small customers.
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  6. 9:34 This idea that Putin is responsible for all Britain's woes, also (presumably) implies that Putin is vastly more powerful than Biden! Really? Well, maybe a time to rethink our priorities?
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  7. I saw a discussion between two Americans, one of whom said he worked in Wall St, and he said that discussing the war in Ukraine with his co-workers was impossible because they were all 100% convinced that Ukraine was winning, hands down.
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  8. I think it is almost certain that the reason we have such an inadequate set of leaders in Europe (and the US, come to that) is that they have all been selected because they are vulnerable to blackmail, i.e. not because of their abilities. They all bought into the twin myths; that Russia was very weak and badly organized and that NATO was the "greatest military power the World has ever seen" and they thought therefore, that the Russians would buckle under when the UAF attacked Donbass and the sanctions struck home in Russia. Now that it is becoming clearer by the day that they miscalculated on every assumption, they have no way to turn. Time to panic, in fact.
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  9. 11:03 What they are basing "This Russian collapse" on is simply that: "It worked in the Cold War so it must be going to work again!"
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  10. The Kursk operation, plays into Russia's advantage in that it has concentrated the very units that Putin said, at the start of the SMO, that they particularly wanted to eliminate, in a small area, where they can be and are, in imminent danger of being wiped out.
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  11. Prohibiting western insurance companies from insuring tankers carrying Russian oil, looks like a "Self-denying Odinance". Almost as though, the insurance business was not profitable! Or to put it another way, almost a sanctioning of the Western Insurance Industry! What did they do to deserve that? Do they/did they imagine that Chinese or Indian or Russian or Israeli insurers would not take up the extra business? I cannot follow their reasoning.
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  12. More & more arms and advisors was how the US military got into the Vietnam war.
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  13. We have an example of a BRICS effect. The German arms mfg Rheinmetal, has a South African subsidiary, from which Poland ordered 50,000 155mm shells. The South African government forbade this export, on the grounds that these shells might end up in Ukraine.
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  14. 22:22 The problem with what Alex is saying at this point, is that many on the Israeli side DO want to destroy the Palestinian population! They say so, frequently, loudly and show every sign that they mean it, they are not joking.
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  15. 33:40 I don't understand how anyone could trust any US signature to anything. They have such a dismal record of reneging o almost every treaty they have ever signed.
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  16. 16:26 "Fudging the numbers". After WW2 the British government had a basket of commodities the price of which was used as a measure of inflation. At a time of fairly rapidly rising prices, I noticed that the price of candles stayed the same until candles were, weight for weight, cheaper than coal! The price of candles was subsidized to achieve this. The point, I finally worked out, was, that hardly anyone used candles for lighting any longer, so the subsidy cost very little, but it reduced the "cost of living" considerably and with it, the increase in e.g. pensions.
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  17. 20:56 I think that Trumps most powerful move, would be to investigat and expose the profiteering out of the Ukraine conflict that has gone on. That would resonate with the US public and would be very damaging for his opponents and He is (as far as I know) not involved himself. "Look! My hands are clean!"
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  18. 23:58 It is not just that the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have pursued anti-Russian policies directed at the Russian government, but they also have, extrememly hostile policies, directed at the Russian-speaking minorities left there, by the break-up of the USSR.
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  19. 17:22 Netanyahoo being "determined to destroy Hamas" reminds me very forcibly of the US's "desperate (Largely un successful) fight" to "destroy ISIS" in Syria, before the Russian intervention in 2015.
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  20. 5:43 They have also torn up almost every treaty they have ever signed.
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  21. I think that what really alarmed de Gaulle, was that the demos contained/consisted of not only students and other intellectuals, but also industrial workers as well; a very dangerous combination, if history is anything to go by.
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  22. 16:34 You have not only Shokin's testimony on TV, but you also have Biden's gloat over the same event, on camera, to back it up in every detail.
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  23. 9:28 It is always a Bad Sign when people get enthusiastic support from the MSM!
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  24. Have the people of any country in NATO been asked if they want their country to be in NATO?
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  25. Come to think back on it: it was the US that was the last to stop supporting the Apartheid Regime in South Africa too.
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  26. When I was a child Britain had coal gas, which was a mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen and nitrogen. When Britain stopped making coal gas and instead decided to burn natural gas, all the nozzles in all the burners in the country had to be changed, either modified or replaced. If the Germans now want to use Hydrogen, all their burners will have to be modified or replaced too.
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  27. 12:14 "They've been doing this for many years." Yes they have! I was in East Berlin in 1961 and I was talking to a scientist who was about to go to a scientific congress in Bonn and he was a bit worried that he would be seized by the Americans while he was there. "What will happen if you are" I asked him. "Oh, I expect our authorities will seize someone visiting here and they'll exchange us. It's annoying but it happens all the time." was his reply.)
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  28. One of the amazing things to me is how the US representatives, at the same time as supporting what Israel is doing in Gaza, will talk about the US's anxiety about abuses of Human rights in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, Iran and about their concern about freedom and democracy whilst at the same time trying to extradite Julian Assange from Britain to stand trial in the US, on a charge of being a journalist! Are they aware of how absurd they look, or are they really that schizophenic that do not see it?
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  29. 13:00 As I said on another channel, if you were a policeman investigating a murder, and you had a number of suspects and one of them was seen for three days near the scene of the crime before the crime was committed, who stood to profit greatly from the crime, was the only beneficiary of the crime, had the means to carry out the crime, had twice stated emphatically that he would commit this crime. . . . . . Who would you suspect was the perpetrator? Why would you suspect anyone else?
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  30. 11:03 "At the end of the day" thesw generals are, cheerfully, discussing committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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  31. The irony is that they Germans could certainly alleviate, possibly cure the problem, by opening NS"!
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  32. 5:38 I think you have to consider what really is at stake here. Is it concern for Taiwanese Democratic Rights? The answer is that is seems extremely improbable that a contry which has zero interest in any rights at all for Palestinians, would have any real interest in rights for any other country. Therefore, I conclude that the REAL interest is in degrading China so that it does not compete with the USA for the position of World Hegemon. This means that there is no need for a real causus belli. The US wants a war and will try to get it any way it can. On the other hand, it does not want to be seen as the aggressor. Nothing that the Chinese can or will say, will make the slightest difference to the USA's aim.
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  33. The harsh core of the "Liberal International Order was always there, it was just kept out of sight better while the USSR existed. George Orwell saw it and Senator McArthy showed it, When the USSR collapsed, the Illiberal reality began to show through, (E.g. The Patriot Act) because there was no need to compete with the Soviets any longer. I often think that things like mandatory holidays, sick pay, limited working weeks, Health and Safety Regulations and the like were all introduced into Western industrial life in an effort to compete with the USSR. In a way, the chief beneficiaries of the Russian Revolution, were the Working classes in the West!
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  34. Wow! It is not often you come across people like Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who have the courage he displayed here! I salute you for the confession! Well done, Sir!
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  35. The Chinese are very calm and well mannered. Losing their temper with the likes of Blinken would offend their own sense of dignity. "Rudeness, pettyness, is for barbarians, we have been a civilization for about 5,000 years."
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  36. This is how the "Rules-Based International Order" (RBIO) works. We make the Rules and you Obey them. It's really very simple!
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  37. 8:37 If anyone talks to me about the "rules based order" I ask them: "Where one can read what these rules are?"
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  38. Why would Venezuela play ball over oil if the CW (UK) does not return its Gold?
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  39. It is also, very possible, that the Israeli government feels that it can rely on the support of all the highly-placed dual-passport holders in the governments of the Collective West.
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  40. Didn't the US call on Britain and the Australian governments to help them in Vietnam? I thought that "one of the good things about Wilson" was that "he kept us out of Vietnam"? Australians did fight in Vietnam alongside the US.
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  41. 19:53 The Biden camp could also be thinking "You don't change presidents in the middle of a war."
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  42. 11:55 Do you suppose that perhaps the reason the US and UK are so focused on "Breaking through to Crimea" is that they desperately want Sevastopol? As a NATO naval base?
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  43. 1:01:04 One cause of tensions within the European part of the West is the fact that many of the people trying to draw attention to the problems that Washington's policies are inflicting on their country/industry/ company/group are suppressed and cannot express themselves in any of the MSM.
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  44. 45:23 "Ukraine had no involvement" Implies "I know who did it!" Which in turn implies: "I did it myself!" as otherwise I would/should have warned you about it.
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  45. 26:48 If you run an Apartheid State, you not only de-humanise the victims, by a neccessary dialectic, the oppressors become de-humanised as well, or they cannot function.
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  46. Re overestimating our own power: The US has been moderately successful against a number of small countries such as Panama. It failed to defeat China when it was the greatest military on the Earth and China was the poorest country in Asia. It failed to defeat the Vietnamese. Ukraine's army was the best trained, the most battle experienced part of NATO and it is not doing well against Russia. The US had to resort to diplomacy to subdue a group of Cuban engineers(!), in their invasion of Grenada. They now want to take on the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, all at once? Why not take on the North Koreans at the same time? Since the Ukrainians have been using up NATO's stocks of weapons fast enough to leave the NATO stockpiles dangerously depleted after three months, how long do they, in Wash DC/Brussels, think they could last (against all three) before having to give up/sue for peace or use nuclear weapons?
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  47. 16:44 They are also working together to help Latin American and Carabean countries break free of US dominance. Both part of BRICS.
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  48. 5:51 In the late 1930s my parents were travelling in Scandinavia and during a train journey they shared a railway carriage with a young German man and struck up a conversation with him. They asked him what his job was and he replied that he was a school teacher. What did he teach? they asked. "I teach Hate." was his reply.
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  49. 24:02 This effort at ethnic cleansing, will terribly danage the Israeli's image, but it will also entirely destroy the US's pretence of "standing up for Human Rights", for espousing "Freedom and Democracy". Can they really expect anyone to take them ,seriously after this, when spouting on these themes? I think not.
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  50. I am surprised that you did not mention, that in the course of the insurrection, the Wagner organization shot down aircraft and killed 12 Russian servicemen. I imagine that there are relatives and friends of those people who are not sorry to think that Prigozhin is dead.
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  51. I look forward to your commenting on the latest idiocy of the US, where a US State has passed a resolution supporting Sikh independence. (!) That should work wonders for India-China relations!
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  52. 17:20 I'm afraid that Alex may well be right, that the EU citizens will accept this evil set-up. However, there is a ray of hope which you two have helped to generate: Look back at the comments to your programs over the last, say, five years and you will find that the "tone" of them has changed/is changing remarkably. Keep up the good work and maybe, just maybe they won't! Slowly, slowly, over time people generally are becoming much more willing to speak out, to challenge cencorship and to question authority.
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  53. 16:02 The reason they can get away with twisting Putin's words in this fashion, is that so few people go to the original source material. You and the other purveyors of the Truth, have a small audience, the fraction of that audience that takes the trouble to read original speeches of leaders opposed to the US is even much smaller. The rest of the population hardly does so at all.
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  54. 9:12 I remember when we had massive unemployment in Britain in the late 80s, the politicians were all cockahoop over "How well the economy is doing". As I had just been offered the choice of "the sack or twice the work, in half the time, for half the pay," (No, I am not making this up!) I felt rather bitter.
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  55. Thanks for that one!
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  56. 14:25 What Alexander says about replacing the ruling clique/class is exactly what I think too. I think that he has summed it up about as well as it could be put.
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  57. 20:25 Are you sure that the sanctions are aimed at Russia? Is it not likely, given that they are quite obviously not damaging Russia, that they are, in fact, aimed at Europe in general and Germany in particular?
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  58. 4:56 Do you think that perhaps, just possibly, there might be some Israeli politicians, some military people even who do not like the thought of committing genocide or even ethnic cleansing? Could it be that they are what is holding up the start of this "Operation"?
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  59. "Working people must take control of their own lives and works" There are three very big problems that stand in the way of that happening: 1)The disorganized nature of the British working classes and 2) the lack of any credible leader. 3) The MSM's near-monopoly of information distribution. There are other, but those are, IMHO, the most important.
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  60. 50:45 The weakness of this discussion is that it ignores the way that there was an underlying sympathy in Britain (Churchill and many British aristocrats) and in America (General Grove, John Foster Dulles)) for the N*zis, which sympathy survived WW2 and was expressed not only in "Operation Paperclip" and the analogous Japanese operation, but also in the wholesale adoption and incorporation of the Gehlen Organization and its use to harass the Soviet Union, not only, but particularly in Ukraine. IOW this cultivation of the extreme right-wing elements in Ukraine is not something that started in 2014 but goes back at least to 1945. Nor should one, in this context, forget that the original idea to research the possibility of making atom-bombs, it seems was NOT "in case the Germans got there first" but in order to defeat the USSR. Seeing how friendly NATO was with almost every F*scist dictatorship there was in the world, (Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Libya, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Greece, Vietnam, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Philippines etc., etc.) and how the US intervened in liberation movements to install F*scist governments, (Iran, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, etc.) it seems to me that the "Political West" was not some relatively innocuous aspect of Western Society or civilization, but more like a powerful F*scist crusade. Put it another way: what would you call people who organize, finance, arm, protect and support in every possible way, F*scists? Liberals? Democrats? Philanthropists?
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  61. Why is Starmar following the same policy as Sunak was? Because both are puppets with the same puppetmaster.
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  62. The USG is a linear descedant of the Mob in 1930s Chicago, so their behaving as crooks is hardly a surprize. It merely thei real nature showing itself. (Can the Leopard change his spots?) This Gangster nature of the USG becomes more and more obvious the more one learns about them.
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  63. 17:04 It's not just the British. Throughout the CW there is a mass of mediocre "statesmen" and "stateswomen" and not a single distinguished, charismatic person amongst the lot. It really is a quite extraordinary phenomenon.
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  64. 31:40 Add to the Russians producing 130% the STEM students compared to the US, the fact that a lot of the US STEM students are foreign and that the Chinese universities are producing about EIGHT TIIMES as many STEM graduates as the US universities.
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  65. No. It's more like two Chiwawas planning to take on a grizzly bear. It's Monthy Python all over again, absurd but, this time, not funny.
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  66. Not until they nationalize their MIC and break the power of AIPAC.
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  67. 5:56 the Iranians could react in the same way as Germany when they were faced with the accusation "There are German Tanks in Ukraine fighting Russians again." They replied IMMSMC, Those are not German tanks! Those are Ukrainian Tanks! They belong, not to Germany but to Ukraine!" So, These are not "Iranian" precision guided missiles those are missiles of the Popular Mobilization Forces!"
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  68. The problem besetting Germany is/was the same as the problem besetting both Britain and Japan, they were living under the control of the USA. The USA which does not like competition.
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  69. 23:04 The point about e.g. Lloyd Austin warning an American audience about "the Russians invading the Baltic states and Moldova, Georgia and Armenia" is that the audience has only the foggiest idea of how important or vital to US interests these countries are or what their importance is. Probably most of them think "this is our Secretary of Defense, so probably he knows what he is talking about and if he's worried about it, probably, we ought to be worried about it too!"
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  70. 10:22 "Getting rid of Netanyahoo" looks more like a job for the CIA than for Blinken.
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  71. 43:23 I bet, you Alexander, never thought of yourself as a Revolutionary! Welcome to the club!
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  72. 40:00 You will not get a permanent peace while you have a privately owned Arms industry, which has its shareholders in powerful positions. Isn't that absolutely obvious?
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  73. 35:20 The embargo on Russian diamonds will affect the gem trade in the West and it will very badly affect the metal and stone working industries in the West. Particularly industries that are concerned with very high precision will be badly hit, as diamond cutting tools are essential to them.
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  74. 4:17 I think you are wrong about this. The fact that Russia is the World's biggest nuclear power is not really important, What is important, is that Russia is such a big (and well-prepared) nuclear power that any war with Russia has to stay conventional or everyone loses. I also think that nonetheless a NATO war with Russia now or in the near future would indeed, be suicide for NATO. NATO is not geared up for such a war. It might be able to prepare for such a war, but of course the Russians would not sit on their hands and wait for them.
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  75. 38:00 The countries you are calling Freeloaders have been largely forced/persauded to buy extremely expensive weapons from the USMIC. E.g. F-35s. They have also had most of their arms manufacturers driven out of business because N@0 weapons have mostly been bought from the USMIC. So it is not all US-giving and European-taking. In addition, Eu soldiers have died in the wars that the US has initiated and N@0 has supported.
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  76. 10;54 The chief beneficiaries of the USSR were the working classes of Western Europe. They di not have to live in fear of the KGB but because the Western ruling classes felt the need to compete with the USSR, they got such things as : paid holidays, sick pay, a national Health Service, unemployment pay and maybe other benefits I have forgotten.
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  77. Why is the Military always "fighting the last war"? Because the teachers in the military colleges are almost always senior, often retired officers, whose experience was, in previous wars.
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  78. There are no disputes in Europe or Eurasia that cannot be settled by negotiations. The basic problem is the Anglo-American wish to defeat Russia and/or to be World Hegemon. This is the PRINCIPAL PROBLEM. Unless this is dealt with there will be no permanent peace.
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  79. The Chinese have an expression for it: "Lifting a rock, only to drop it on one's own foot."
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  80. 21:10 Many of these "Stupid" US pronouncements are principally aimed at the Domestic US audience.
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  81. 3:27 Another symptom of the endgaminess of the situation is, that Today, Yahoo's news roundup hardly mentions Ukraine at all.
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  82. 12:21 It almost seems that while they are scared to go head-to-head with the Russian army, they still have hopes that with their attacks inside Russia, they will bring about regime change in Moscow.
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  83. 8:30 In Leipzig the day before yesterday a fairly violent mob attacked the US consulate, shouting slogans to the effect of "Yankee go home!!" Probably, Putin's work!
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  84. 6:36 Isn't it the same in GB? Aren't Labour and Conservative just another Uniparty? I mean, what is the essential difference beyween Rishy Subak and Sir Kier Starmer? (I mean in policy terms.)
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  85. 19:56 This legalistic approach of the Soviet/Russian government will have much more force and probably, effect, now that the myth of N@0 invincibility has been shattered.
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  86.  @bogdanmeleszczenko1271  Dream on, little matey!
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  87. One of my memories of my NS time in Germany is of being in a pub when a man came over to me and indicating a chair beside the table said: "Is this place free?" "Yes" I replied. ( I was in fact, on my own and unusually, in uniform.) He plonked his 'Stein down on the table and sat down. "I was in the Waffen SS." he announced, proudly. I don't remember what I replied but it was something non-committal. Probably, I asked where he had fought and it turned out that he had fought in southern Russia. "Rough, I imagine." I said." "ROUGH?! You can't imagine how rough it was! It was beyond anything I could have dreamt up! In the warm weather there were biting flies like you have never seen and dust, great clouds of dust and partizans and when it was cold there was mud like three metres deep! And when it froze it froze so hard that nothing would start.. Anything that was bogged down when it froze needed explosive to dig it out! And we had summer uniforms. God! It was awful and always there were partizans!"
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  88. 15;00 Not merely did they not crash through the Russian lines and sweep all before them all the way to the Sea of Azov, but there was never the slightest sign of it happening! They got stuck almost as soon as they started and though they struggled mightily, it availed them almost nothing to write home about.
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  89. I wonder, were any British or US citizens among the killed or wounded in the attack that did take place?
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  90. No. The US started on this course before WW2 ended.
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  91. 14:42 It really pleases me to think, that one of my pet hates the "JITW" or Just-In-Time-Working, is responsible for this inability to crank up Western production of 155mm shells. When I was working in the UK in the '90s, it was derisevly called "JTLW" or Just-too-late-Working.
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  92. 6:16 I should think that the US presidential candidates refer to Russia as "The SovietUnion", not so much in error, as knowing that this is a "Button" which when pressed produces a reaction in an American audience which, for some tactical reason, they want at that time.
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  93. 4:45 At a guess, the "Deep Structural Problem" is called the CIA.
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  94. 29:00 Very interesting issue! I liked the summary of the impact of Putin's speech. Boy! What a speech that was! That speech said out loud, almost all the things I have wished over the years, that Soviet, Russian and Chinese leaders would say. That Putin felt able to say them Today, is a measure of Russian power and the confidence it gives him. It is also a signal to the World outside the West (WoW) that the West is a paper tiger and that it is past its peak power.
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  95. 41:42 It is hardly neccessary to point out that this situation has been brought about, very largely by the US vetoing resolutions critical of Israel, for decades. They made this problem and yet it has taken them by surprise!
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  96. This reduction in insurance trade is entirely due to sanctions on Russian oil. The CW forbade Western insurers to insure cargos of Russian oil. I said at the time that it was a transparently stupid policy, because anyone with a deep pocket can insure such things and it was simply pushing business over to Chinese, Indian, Russian or Indonesian insurers and it was. Insurance, after all, is a profitable business! (The Two Ronnies: Insurance Against Becoming Jewish 3:16)
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  97. 25:19 You are absolutely spot on with your analogy to the British situation in 400AD! There is not one problem, there are a miriad and they have no skill in any of them! They have no diplomats not enough engineers, not enough skilled metal workers, not enough inspectors, not enough engineers and even management in Britain is mostly done by amateurs. (Only 1/4 of managerial staff in Britain had a formal qualification of any sort last time I heard.) They have no experienced generals and with the armed forces being so small, almost certainly, no corpus of NCOs. As I have said before, if you are going to make explosive devices, drones, no less than shells, you absolutely have to have skilled inspectors. Without them you will lose factories and everything in them.
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  98. 19:45 This switch from the "Blitzkrieg Ukrainian push to the Black Sea and beyond" to "It's a marathon" reminds me of a wartime cartoon the day after the sinking of the Battleship, the Scharnhorst. It had Joseph Goebbels, in front of a microphone making a broadcast and saying: "And yesterday our glorious Navy increased our submarine fleet by 38,100 long tons!"
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  99. How does NATO intervene without 155mm shells?
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  100. 56:00 No one seems to mention the ethnic rights of the Greek-speaking or Hungarian-speaking minorities in Ukraine , who were equally oppressed by the Kiev regime. Maybe it's time they were mentioned. Maybe also there are other oppressed minorities of which I am unaware?
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  101.  @SuanLuang  More importantly he was not Tel Aviv approved. @ruthelainefry Being a man of principle is not enough. In his position, you have to be tougher than old boots and he is a rather gentle soul.
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  102. 21:52 Isn't this method of bargaining well within theJewish tradition? Zelensk and his team are all Jewish, I don't know about Lloyd Austin but Blinken and Sullivan and Vicky \nuland are also of the same ethnicity. You start off with an outrageous demand and the other offers peanuts, so you drop your demand slightly and he offers a few lumps of sugar to add to the nuts and eventually you compromise on somethin in between. It's a very old proceedure.
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  103. 11:49 Trump is not fanatically Anti-Russian. That is what makes him different.
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  104. 20:27 I am not a lawyer but, I would have thought that it would in effect make the banks that participated in this scheme, in crininal slang, into Fences!
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  105. Yes, the point is that you cannot overcome faith with either logic or facts. I once asked a Christian priest: "What is the essence of religion? and without hesitation he replied: "Faith". Since faith means believing things which are not supported by evidence, there is no point in providing evidence to the faithful that their faith is based on nothing or false assumptions. That "don't cut the mustard"!
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  106. 19:15 That is exactly the point! It never was about Communism, that was always an excuse for Russophobia! No, thinking about it more, I think it was always fear of any country that might displace the USA as Hegemon or even compete with it to more than a very small extent.
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  107. I would be interested to hear your comments on the news from Britain, that the population is turning its back on TV, of all types and turning to the internet for news and entertainment and the other news that one quarter of Britons are living in poverty.
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  108. 10:16 I don't know much about Pakistan, but I would have thought that if re-elected, he would feel a good deal more secure in his popular support, than he could have felt the first time.
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  109. About "It could have been anybody who made this recording". Yes ! It could. Anyone who hacked into this conversation, even accidentally, having recorded it , could have sold it for a goodly sum.
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  110. 12:28 Clichés are a form of laziness. There are other forms of laziness that Blinken uses: "We don't need a plan; we'll just muddle through". "We are so overwhelmingly powerful that it is inconceivable that we will lose, therefore we do not need to think about what would happen if we were to lose." "The good always win in the end so, since we are the good guys, we are bound to win," "Because Russia and China are autocracies, the Russian and Chinese people are bound to get fed up with their rulers and will eventually come over to our side." "Everyone is as greedy and cowardly as we are so all we have to do is to make them suffer a bit and they will give up."
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  111. I should think that if the Russians found that their industry was being stretched, they could ask the Chinese for help and it would be forthcoming.
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  112. 6:00 Bear in mind that an economy growing at 6%, doubles in size in a decade. So, to put it another way, an economy that maintained 6% growth between 2010 and 2020 is actually increasing in size by roughly the same amount as it was in 2010 if it grows by 3% in 2020.
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  113. I haven't been in France for decades, but last time I was there, I had the impression that Russia was regarded with rather warm, friendly feelings. How much has that changed, I wonder?
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  114. 16:26 Nepotism. I am reminded of a story from the 70s when a small number of companies adopted the Chinese idea of sending ruling class people to work in the fields or on the factory floor, to gain insight into how their actions and decisions affected ordinary people. Avis was one such company. There was a story that one of the vice-presidents, who was working as a booking clerk, had really messed up someone's booking and was confronted by a very angry customer, who asked him: "What is your position in this company?" and rather sheepishly, he admitted to being a vice-president. "Yeah!! And I'll bet your old man is chairman of the board!" was the bitter reply.
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  115. 10:57 You don't know what skeletons there are in Scholtz's cupboard. Probably, someone in Washinton does.
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  116. 18:14 Mao understood this. quite early in the Chinese revolution, Chiang Kai-shek captured Mao's sweetheart/wife and his baby and had them executed BECAUSE they were Mao's family. Later, a part of Chiang's army revolted and were going to execute him and Mao stopped them, because he thought that it would hinder the war against Japan if they did.
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  117. 11:23 My fear is, that if anyone were to "turn up", with a real effective policy, committed let's say, to making Britain prosperous or fairer, they would be ragged to pieces by the MSM.
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  118. 10:13 It looks to me, I am sorry to say, as though until the warmongers in Washington DC are decisively defeated on the battlefield, they and their soulmates in London, Brussels and Berlin will never stop making trouble.
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  119. 1:04:24 You mean like NATO gave Ukraine security? This must be some new definition of "Security" of which I was, hitherto, unaware!
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  120. 15:17 The Israeli genocide case is not being defended properly because it is indefensible.
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  121. "Johnson - unpopular Biden - unpopular Trudeau - unpopular Macron - unpopular Scholtz - unpopular" It's called Western-style Democracy.
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  122. 5:07 You are completely right! Because there is no "Democracy" in European government policies (Excepting Hungary) because they are all, whatever party is "in Power" under the thumb of Washington. They quarrel among themselves but they do not quarrel with Washington.
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  123. 17:58 It would not surprise me at all if Bloomberg had been told, by the Integrity Initiative, to "stop rocking the boat!"
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  124. Very good suggestion!
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  125. 33:40 Before you bring about Regime Change, it is as well to know what/who you want to replace the current rulers. Otherwise, you are taking a leap in the dark and hoping for a soft landing.
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  126. 3:47 Being kept waiting fot the Iranian response is costing the US and Israel a lot of money and nervous energy!
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  127. Almost the whole trouble in the World, bar a few regional conflicts, which could almost certainly be sorted out by negotiations, is caused by the small group of neo-cons in the US. (Supported by the weird idea of American Execptionalism.) A resounding defeat of NATO/US might provide an opportunity, which might not recur for another century, to deal with this problem, to the advantage of the whole World.
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  128. 15:36 You could not be more wrong about the feeling towards the USSR in Britain during the war! I know, Ilived through that period and I can tell you that there was a great deal of friendly feeling and gratitude for the Red Army's and the Soviet people's struggle duringthe war. It was even to be found insuch un likely places as The Daily Mail! It's true that it faded away very quickly afterwards though.
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  129. 15:57 There can be no dispute at all that NATO's failure to win an immediate and crushing win over Russia in Ukraine, has already vastly diminished NATO's pretige. It has destroyed the MYTH of NATO Invincibility.
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  130. It's not the Greens running the show in Germany, it is the Unohus and the Neocons in Wash D.C.
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  131. 5:09 Perhaps the EU should be renamed "The Brussels Pact".
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  132. I would like to see would be joint Russian-Chinese-Cuban Naval-air exercises in the international waters of the Caribbean Sea. Preferably, with a Chinese carrier battle group taking part. However, I doubt the Russians, the Chinese and the Cubans will be that provocative.
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  133. HT has a report that Elensky is saying that much as he would like a spring offensive, it can't start until his western friends send some weapons and some ammunition.
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  134. 1:00:02 I can't reassure you that this is "the darkest hour before dawn" but there are huge changes afoot that have not been touched on in this program e,g. the rapid decline of the dollar and a backlash over the Pandemic and the way it was mis-handled. There is also the accellerating shift away from the domination of the MSM. Partly your's and Alex's work, for which many thanks!
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  135. 12:20 Gorbaschov's ideas if followed,would have meant less arms being ordered and hence less money for the shareholders and other beneficiaries of the arms industry, the conress-critters and the lobbying industry and their dependents. That is beyond doubt, one reason why there was a backlash agains Gorbaschov's ideas in Washington. Another, reason was that Gorbaschov's iniative, largely removed the raison d'etre for NATO and the US armed forces. The third and in my view the most important reason for the pushback was the perrenial desire in Washington, to conquer, dismantle and loot, Russia.
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  136. The Scots have a proverb that goes something like: "Fact are chiels that winna ding". Which means "Facts are children that won't do what you want." (I think!)
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  137. 17:15 I heard this morning that the NYT is worrying about some of the prisoners taken in Avdiivka might change sides. Hmmm!
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  138. 4:47 Sorry Mr Freeman! Not Yeltsin, Johnson!JJk
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  139. 10:43 Don't forget the BRI in South America.
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  140. 3:59 Abkhazia is not Ngorno-Kharabakh (Excuse my spelling!). Methinks your mind has "slippped a cog." Abkhazia was a break-away part of Georgia, that Georgia attacked under Sakashvili and was defended by Russia.
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  141. 18:12 Had the White House done what Alex suggested, they would have faced an enormous barrage of criticism from the MIC and the Media (N0t to say death threats!).
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  142. Attacks on US bases, arms dumps and ships could make supporting Israel much more expensive, and Israeli military sites, such as arms dumps arms factories and airfields, could embarras Israel.
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  143. 10:59 The military may also be alarmed at the thought that if things go on as they are at present, they may find themselves having (God forbid!!) to fight the Russians.
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  144. 14:45 Considering how many Italian leaders who wanted to follow independent paths have been assassinated or died mysteriously, one can easily understand Meloni's hesitation!
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  145. 40:59 Immigration helps to keep wages down. This is good for the employers and bad for the employees. Without Class Analysis, politics is "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
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  146. 11:57 What happened to the "Left" in Britain? The Communist party, the CPGB was at its strongest ever at the end of WW2. I don't know how it happened, but quite a number of communists and left-wing social democrats, got into the Education Corps during the war and had quite a radicalising effect on the armed forces, boosting the reputation of the Red Army. This effect was large enough to alarm Bevin and Bevan and the High command. Probably it was part of the reason why "Operation Unthinkable" never got off the drawing board. In the election immediately following the end of the war, which Churchill had expected to win, the Labour Party won. They introduced what they said was Socialism and was in fact a mixed economy. However, it was also a fraud, in that the state owned enterprises, were all charging large private industries rock bottom prices while the price to retail consumers was 4 -6 times higher and all the while the MSM kept up a contant mantra of "Socialism is all very well in theory, but inpractice it always makes a loss!! Around 1952 the Conservative party managed to be elected and immediatly started whittling away at the "Socialism" first by declaring "The War on Drugs" and making prescriptions for addictive drugs no longer free. This was a really destructive move, because up until then, there was practically no "Drugs Problem." There were a very few people, who had been working in the Far East and had become addicted to opium and were on diminishing doses of other narcotics to get them off their habits. The MSM made a great fuss about "Ordinary folks subsidizing these evil peoples' habits!" This change opened a way for organized Crime to make a huge financial ,killing which has never stopped since and it provided funding for organised crime and the excuse for many more policemen with much greater powers. "The Socialism" was used to take the old worn out industries, coal mining, iron and steel manufacture, road transport, railways, electricity generation and distribution, gas manufacture and distribution, Post Office including telephones, and modernise them at the taxpayers expense. These measures by Labour governments were followed by Conservative government that then sold off the refurbished enterprises to "friends" at rock-bottom prices. Very profitable for the moneid and very bad for leftwing thinking. In fact it was a very successful campaign by the Right and the Ruling Class. I don't remember exactly when but some time after Stalin's death the CPSU(B) pronulated a new doctrine called the "Parliamentary Road to Socialism" .(As opposed to the revolutionary road that had been the doctrine since about 1917) the CPGB of course followed the Soviet lead but when the Chinese Communist Party objected, it split not just the World Communist movement but a split occurred also in the CPGB. After the split occurred and the more left-wing faction left the Party in disgust, the leftists did not unite, but split up into numeroud little groups which each claimed to be more Marxis-Leninist than all thee rest occurred, a My impression is, that probably all of them were infiltrated by the Special Branch and gradually everyone in them got fed up and resigned. At least, that is how it looks to me.
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  147. 36:20 In other words, it would cause no more trouble than stealing Lybia's gold.
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  148. The British Ruling Class want the US in Britain. The population has never been asked.
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  149. 19:38 The horrific scenes that are bring plyed out in Gaza, seem fairly likely to put so many people off supporting Israel, at all, that it will make even one-party support for Israel impossible to achieve.
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  150. 6:12 Maybe the authors of the two articles in the Telegraph and the Spectator, met and had a discussion in their club, before they went their separate ways and wrote their pieces for their respective journals?
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  151. 29:50 Even were the Europeans and the US united, Personally, I doubt that their combined power could defeat Russia, never mind Russia and China together.
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  152. 16:40 Accountants' way with figures: You are being interviewed with regard to a position in a firm of accountants and you are asked the question "What does 2+2 equal?" The correct answer is "Which particular number does it need to equal in this case?"
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  153. 10:40 Napoleon got too big for his boots (hubris) and bit off more than he could chew. The warmongers in Washington have done the same. They did not do their due diligence before they provoked the Russians into their attack on 24/2/22.
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  154. 23:19 The threat to Russia is not from France or Poland or Germany nor yet the "Baltic Chiwawas", it is the US and its vassals. Without the US driving them, the Europeans would still be living at peace with Russia, as they did from 1990 to 2014.
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  155. The thought occurs to me, that were this "settled" on US or Israeli terms, no Arab state (least of all if they were mentioned in the Bible!) could feel safe within their borders.
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  156. 13:30 There are no citizens in Britain, only subjects. What are you? A revolutionary?
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  157. 2:08 This morning there was a ludicrous article from AFP by Louise Delmotte, titled " China Marks Ten Years of Belt and Road forum, though interest is waning."
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  158. 4:57 Correction! Not "Down the spine of every European", but "down the spine of almost every European "leader"".
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  159.  @song4night  Putin can leave Ukraine to his generals. It is in good hands.
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  160. You can't conquer a country from the air. Where are the "Boots-on-the-ground" to come from?
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  161. 11:12 In any case, they should have realized that China would support Russia, before they provoked the conflict. It wasn't surprising! More thoughtlessness.
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  162. 44:12 I remember in one of the psychiatist, Karen Horny's books, her recalling a patient saying: "I can cope with anything except reality!" Maybe, Western politicians are suffering from the same disorder?
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  163. The Rules-based International Order. I know what the rules are: Rule 1. The rules are secret. Rule 2. The rules apply to you and they do not apply to us. Ever! Rule 3. We make the rules. Rule 4. We decide when you have broken the rules and there is no appeal mechanism. Our verdict is final.
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  164. 10:50 The way that the SNP has declined mirrors the way all the alternatives to the Conservatives and Labour have withered away. Maybe, they have all been infiltrated and led down into the dust by (who knows?) MI6? MI5? Special Branch? We know that has happened to a number of other organizations.
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  165.  @bogdanmeleszczenko1271  Dream on, little matey!
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  166. 11:33 I hear on other channels, that two officials who received large amounts of money to build the fortification in the Kharkiv area, have disappeared, with the money.
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  167. 15:10 Were he to do what Alex is suggesting, Sunak could find himself in the position of the PM in the play "A Very British Coup".
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  168. 10:40 The Sino-Indian dispute stems from the British annexing part of Tibet early in the 20th Century and the Indians sticking to it after independence. The Sino-Russian dispute IIRC, was over islands that were created when the Ussuri River, the river that formed quite a stretch of the border between China and Russia) changed its course.
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  169. It is also possible that there will be an electoral upset in Lithuania and a new, more rational government.
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  170. I was surprised that you did not mention Sakarova's bon mott on Lohnson's stupid "If Potin were a woman" remark. BTW, while searching for your video just now I saw a headline to a video in Russian, which said "Lugansk nash!" which I take it means "Lugansk is ours!".
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  171. 18:12 I think that in the 50s and 60s the British government was a bit more independent of the US than any recent government has been. They had, for example the practice of establishing diplomatic relations with the government in charge, actually ruling a country. E.g. the The PRC had diplomatic relations with Britain quite soon after it was founded. Harold Wilson refused to send troops to fight in Vietnam.
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  172. 11:25 You do not need a sophisticated Intelligence Agency to see who is winning and who is losing in Ukraine
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  173. 4:15 Thank you for using "Right wing" in, what I regard as, the "proper" way! (Tory, reactionary, hard anti-working class, anti Russian, anti Chinese, etc.)
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  174. 43:00 It occurs to me to wonder, seeing that Britain has run out of self-propelled Howitzers, would it even be possible for the UK to make some more? Do we still have the machinery, raw materials, the people to do the iron and steel production? Do we have the skilled mechanics, engineers, metallurgists, inspectors, foundry workers to do such work? I think it might be difficult. Then again, could we get the alloying elements needed to make the requisite steels?
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  175. 22:58 "One of the most mendacious statements". . . . What? More mendacious than Rishi Sunak's speech outside No.10 the other day? Boy!
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  176. 34:00 You two are the nearest approach to an impartial news service that I have come across.
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  177. 9:38 We are in a time of what is, I believe, called a state of "meta-stability", (in Europe) i.e. a state which in fact, although not moving much at the moment, is poised to move a very great deal. You know, like, say, the East Coast of Norfolk, UK, where every now and then a huge chunk of cliff collapses into the sea.
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  178. Probably, the weapons that can't get to Odessa are also important.
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  179. 30:53 Two similies occur to me: A smash&grab raider robbs a jeweller's shop and takes the loot to a bank in the same street and offers it as security for a loan. Or, someone deposits his life's savings with another who offers to pay interest on it and then, subsequently, refuses to either pay interest or pay the money back, but instead, takes it to a bank and offers the other's life's savings as collateral for a loan, explicitly intending to spend it on his Boyfriend! I would have thought that in order to get this extremely risky scheme to fly, it would be necessary to offer very large returns, but that does not seem to be the case. What would be in it for people that bought these bonds?
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  180. Calling this trouble in the US a "Cancer" seems to me to be a very good analogy.. It is embedded deeply in the substance of the US, in the central nervous system if you like. It further resembles a cancer in that as time goes on it takes more and more of the substance of the US, more of its lifeblood, if you like. It is also a very hard thing to break into, because it is circular in nature and very self-protective. I am sure that if anyone were seriously to threaten this cancer, their life would be in danger. The flow of money in it is circular but it all eventually comes from outside the cancer which consumes, but produces absolutely nothing , but trouble. Being a vicious circle (A very vicious circle!), you cannot "start at the beginning", because there is no "beginning". So let's start with the Arms industry and the MIC. This is a series of very large companies and thousands of little companies that supply the big companies and their plants are spread in every state of the union. They all ultimately depend to a large extent, on orders from the USG. These orders are all more or less authorized, approved by or passed by or ignored by congress. The companies employ lobbyists to find out who will support the government in ordering large amounts of expensive equipment or expensive research from the MIC. The members of congress want the companies to prosper, because they provide relatively stable and well-paid work in their constituencies. As most of them have investments in the companies of the MIC they also like the fact that when these companies prosper, they themselves, receive large dividends from them. If a member of congress happens to land a position on a committee which has influence on what orders are placed with the MIC, when they retire, they will probably be offered a sinecure position on the board of one or more of these companies. When they are up for election, they will be given campaign contributions if they promise to support the arms program and if they do not so promise, their opponents will be given campaign contributions to run against them. The money that the lobbyists contribute, of course, comes from the companies of the MIC. Thus the circle is completed. For the people on the inside of this circle it is a very satisfactory set-up. For those on the outside it is really like a cancer in the body-politic.
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  181. It looks to me as though Europe's best plan would be to elect new, "right-wing" governments, and then to go to the Russians and say something along the lines of : "We are new governments, we repudiate absolutely, the policies that our predessors were following . We would like to re-establish reasonable relations to you and to start with, we would like to negotiate a security architecture to give everyone peace of mind and then we can go on to re-establish mutually benficial commercial relations. How about it?" (It won't happen, of course!)
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  182. 7:47 In WW2, if I understand correctly, the Russians set a trap in Kursk for the Germans, believimg that the Germans particularly liked to attack. Could this be something of the same sort?
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  183. At the present moment Putin is also facing an adversary, who is not interested in compromise. An adversary, moreover, that seems to want, not one but three(or more) wars at once!
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  184. 35:25 The Grinding down approach has the merit that while the Ukraine army fights, it is using up the CW's stock of weapons at an extraordinary rate. It is using these weapons profligately, probably faster than better trained troops would and, probably, with less effect than better trained troops would. If this goes on much longer, the CW's arsenals are going to be so depleted that they will not be able to sustain US or UK or French or German "boots on the Ground. (BotG). To sustain a war effort (and particularly if you are at the same time building ships as fast as you can) you need steel, lots and lots of it and not just any old steel either. You need alloy steel and for that you need, in addition to iron, nickel, chromium, vanadium, manganese and I dare say other, more exotic components. You will also need lots of titanium, copper, tin and aluminium. You would also need uranium for electricity, and for driving submarines. Most of the iron foundries and steel mills that used to be in Germany, the US and the UK have migrated to China. Steel comes, I believe, mostly from China these days. The UK used to make iron and steel but most of that industry was closed down by Thatcher. The aluminium mostly comes from Russia as does most of the titanium. Some, at least of the European plants making aluminium have closed down for lack of cheap Russian gas. So you would have to make do with the output of Iceland and Norway (and Canada?) Uranium also comes from Russia. You would also need a lot of oil, for fuel, for lubrication and to make plastics. My impression is that most plastics these days, come from China and, of course, oil can be a bit of a problem! It all looks like a logistical nightmare to me.
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  185. 35:46 Ruling classes envy Aparteid states!
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  186. 16:33 What would it do to the US's stocks of ammunition and armoured vehicles if it got into a war in the Middle East?
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  187. 26:00 Seeing that Israel has never recognised its own borders it is a bit difficult to define victory!
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  188.  @LetsEndHumanity  Explain what you mean.
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  189. 21:41 In the West, you could not have such a factory set up and ready to start producing, say, shells, because it would be privately owned. That would mean that the accountants and the shareholders would be complaining that it was non-working capital, tied up in a non-productive way. It would either have to be used for something else or it would have to be written off and scrapped and the factory used for something else or sold to a, preferably, non-competing company. Anyway, idle plant in private industry, is regarded as a waste of capital. This is why the west has too little ammunition and very little chance of making much more any time soon. In addition, I suspect that shells are relatively unprofitable and making state-of-the-art weapons pays many times better. So making shells has been neglected, and the factories that made them have been sold off for office building or some much more profitable activity such as financing car purchases.
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  190. 30:21 Listening to Alexander's description of "Plan B": it seems to be, absolutely, tailor-made for the likes of Nuland, Blinken, Sullivan and Biden!
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  191. 51:43 It is no longer the case that one needs "to defeat Russia", because Russia is not isolated. China, Iran and North Korea can all see that they would be next, or nexr but one or two. (So could India, if they were not so arrogant) Since the faiure in Ukraine the whole enterprise looks more and more like a sick fantasy.
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  192. No. They are simply cutting rival economies off at the knees. Not hypocritical, they don't even say they are sorry!
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  193.  @vaska1999  No, they have not all backfired! Well, not on them on them! The sanctions on Russia have backfired on Germany and the other European countries. They stagnated the Japanese economy by forcing a currency policy on them. They cut the British down to size by forcing various economic policies on them that favoured Big US Oil companies
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  194. 20:04 The sooner the Europeans disengage themselves from this anti-Russian obsession, which has enthusiastic and well funded support in Washington, the better it will be for Europe and the peace of the World. On the whole, the US control of Europe since 1945 has been a disaster in many different ways for the people of Europe.
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  195. I forget where I saw it but someone was bemoaning the complete abscence of Naval Tenders, which the US Navy scrapped some time ago, as with nuclear engines, the carriers did not need refuelling,(?) This move had, apparently, not taken account of the fact that ships need more than just fuel and lubricants. So whereas, in the past, if a carrier on station needed some more supplies, a tender would come alongside and the goods would be offloaded by the tender into the carrier, now, when the carrier runs low on supplies, of almost anything, it has to go to a naval port to be resupplied.
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  196. 8:28 Mali; just like ISIS was winning, was "unstoppable" in Syria, until the Russians came to help.
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  197. Don't you think that by the end of the cold war, the MIC was very largely in control of US policy and regarded the continuation and expansion of NATO as absolutely vital?
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  198. 4:13 I wonder where the ammunition for the wars in the Middle East is to come from?
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  199. Thinking about this incident; it occurs to me that probably the tanks he was fighting in were much lighter than Leopard 2s
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  200. 9:45 Merkel was the performer who kept all the plates spinning.
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  201. One thing that needs to be remembered, is that almost all the tensions, disputes and conflicts that have happened in the World since 1945 have the US at their heart. Almost all the disputes, either have their origins or are grossly exacerbated, by the Warmongers in Washington, because it is profitable for them to do so. This tiny group, has wasted trillions of dollars worth of time, money and energy and untold millions of lives, in that time and all for what?
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  202. 10:00 I agree entirely with the logic of what Alex has just said, but in the West we have this habit of apointing amateurs to positions where they haven't a clue, so, maybe it will be Budanov who gets Zaluxhny's old job.
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  203. I found this in Yahoo today. From the Telegraph, 27/2/24@ “If you are a Nato and EU member, by definition and by the very nature of this membership you have to support Ukraine in its defence against the Russian invasion,” Mr Tusk told reporters. “ Seems to be a split in the polish government.
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  204. 31:31 "Pavel was a cold war communist" A real communist I used to know, once said to me when I mentioned that Prof. Rienäcker was a communistÖ "What youhave to understand, Tonz, is that there are Communists and then there are Party Members."
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  205. Yes, looking back to 1945, we had a psuedo-socialist (Labour) government, which introduced half-hearted (Deeply flawed) Nationalization measures, which were slowly unpicked by successive Conservative governments and it has really been a gradual but consistent, decline since. Britain gave a sort of Last Gasp when it defeated Argentina and the coup de grasse was given by Tony Blair. Britain, since then has, so to speak, twitched a bit and that's about all it has done. It seems to be what happens when you are "allied" with the USA.
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  206. 10:49 "They get no pushback from the West." This is following the "Rules-Based International Order" This is the application of : Rule 3. "We make the Rules and You obey them!"
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  207. I think the Chinese opposition to the Roman Catholic Church goes back a long way. I do not know which Emperor it was, that asked a Cardinal who had been sent to China to negotiate better treatment for RC missionaries than they had been getting: "The head of your Church, the Pope, is a very powerful ruler?" "Yes, he is!" replied the Cardinal, as one might expect. "And in a dispute between the Roman Catholic Church and a local ruler, for I understand that you have churches all over the World, would the followers of your faith side with the Pope or with the local ruler?" I am not sure how the Cardinal tried to wriggle out of saying that the Roman Catholics are morally bound to prefer martyrdom to going against the orders of the Pope, but the upshot was that the Emperor said: "Well, why should I want such an organization of traitors in my domains?"
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  208. 33:40 It would be fascinating to have Vova & Lexis on the Duran!
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  209.  @nusaibahibraheem8183  Probably.
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  210. 32:03 There is a Russian interest in keeping the war going; insofar as the war is draining NATO's stockpiles of weapons and ammunition. It is also, at long last, killing large numbers of Banderites.
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  211. 16:52 You would also need to change the educational system, the Health Care system the infrastructure and all the rest or the newly imported industries would rapidly develop the same problems as beset the US's existing industries.
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  212. 18:00 The Saudis have gone over to the other side too!
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  213. 25:12 And the US seems intent on getting itself into deeper trouble in the Indo-Pacific region too!.
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  214. 11:08 Why does it matter to the US whether they are top dog or merely a large economy in a world of large economies? After all, it is only a few years before Indonesia, Brazil, India and China are going to be large economies comparable to the USA. (Unless they think that they can keep them all down, simultaneously!) If Ukraine shows anything at all, it is that the US Empire, as an Empire, is on its last legs. They need too, to work out how to live in a world economy where the petrodollar is no more. Time to make arrangements to adjust to the new reality, but of course they won't.
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  215. 7:37 The behaviour of the democrats may be triggered by stress and grief. Anyway, whether or not, it reminds me of a relative whose new-born baby was dying, rapidly, of an extremely aggressive sort of cancer. He kept obsessing about the injections, the poor kid was being given by the doctors, "leaving ugly scars on the baby's arms."!
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  216. 13:58 At the time you were discussing, Germany had about four leading aircraft manufacturers and a similar number of leading engine designers and mfgs.
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  217. 1:44:20 The Rules Based International Order is propaganda slogan without any factual basis. No one has ever formally defined it , for the good reason that if one did formalize it realistically it would amount to "We make the rules and you obey them; or else." Naturally, no one could possible lend their support to such a formulation, so it has to remain undefined. It has to remain as an advertising slogan. It sounds good, just so long as you don't ask, what exactly it means. The Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series December 16, 2020 has this to say about it: "The rules-based international system was constructed mostly by leading democratic allies at the end of World War II, and was deepened and expanded by many other countries over time. The system is predicated on a set of norms and principles pertaining to global security, the economy, and governance. It consists of: a set of rules encouraging peaceful, predictable, and cooperative behavior among states that is consistent with liberal values and principles; formal institutional bodies, such as the United Nations (UN) and NATO, that serve to legitimize and uphold these rules, and provide a forum to discuss and settle disputes; and the role of powerful democratic states to help preserve and defend the system. In the security realm, the system is characterized by formal alliances in Europe and Asia, in addition to rules that protect state sovereignty and territorial integrity, and place limits on the use of military force and the spread of weapons of mass destruction. In the economic domain, the rules-based system has served to promote an interconnected global economy based on free markets and open trade and finance. Finally, in the realm of governance, the rules-based system advanced democratic values and human rights. The system has never been fixed, but has evolved over time, with major periods of adaptation and expansion at major inflection points after World War II and at the end of the Cold War. Note the last sentence: "The system has never been fixed," In other words "we make it up as we go along to suit our own convenience."
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  218. Is Musk going to be any help with this information blockage?
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  219. 7:30 I thought that last year (?) Russia exported more food than oil. Was I wrong?
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  220. I's a long list: Wheat, lumber, oil, aluminium, nickel, palladium, neon, deuterium, tritium, coal....... it goes on and on. I think the trouble is that the people in power in the west have graduated in political economy or media studies, or classical history or, you know, some other non-rigorous subject where imagination is more important than logical thought, appearance is more important than substance and no automatic application of scepticism is required. Add to that there is an almost complete lack of graduates in STEM subjects and apparently, no grasp of quantities and numbers. Worse, no grasp of the old discoveries that "action and reaction are equal and opposite" and "all actions have consequences."
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  221. 8:43 Why are the NGOs so influential? The NGOs are all backed by US Money, large amounts of US money. Mostly from the NED. These NGOs have access to the acumulated expperience and expertise of Madison Avenue, since about 1900(?) This expertise, also incorporates the work of Dr Josef Goebels. It is formidable and backed by a lot of research.
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  222. If ever there was an Open-&-shut case, this is it! They could have made an interim cease and desist order couldn't they?
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  223. 15:08 What this situation suggests to me is that the CW has generals, who have gained their warfighting experience fighting militarily inferior armies or irregular troops, without heavy equipment, They also strike me as being rather ignorant of military history and not deep thinkers. For example, they seem to have gone into the Ukraine-Russia war without thinking about the extent of their stockpiles or accurate information about the Russian military and their stockpiles. This even suggests, that they had not read "The Art of War" by Sun Tse!
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  224. Am I right in thinking that the reason that prices, at least in the CW, always go up and almost never go down is that money is always borroed from the bankers at interest? This system, it seems to me is continually creating more moneyand more debt and there is never enough money to pay back all the debt, so that the price, initially of houses and then of everything else, has to go up because everything has to cost more to try to get enough money to repay the debts. If that is right, then the solution has to be, to abolish private banks and hand over their essential functions to the Treasury department of the government. (?)
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  225. 31:47 The Israeli ex-PM Bennet says that the Ukrainian Defense Minister told him that the Ukrainian army had lost 257.000 men KIA in the war to date. This was according to an Indian video.
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  226. 1:27:25 I have seen a number of videos recently, made by US visitors to China, who are taken aback by the fact that it seems to them, to be far more "Modern" than the US.
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  227. 15:04 At the same time as the governments of the collective west are coming together and consolidating their cold war positions; it seems that the populations of their countries are showing more signs of discontent and resistance, than they have for many a year. I saw a HT video this morning about "Pro-Putin" (!) & anti-NATO demonstrations in at least four Australian cities yesterday and there were many demonstrations in Europe too.
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  228. 41:59 When you have a boom in a "normal" capitalist country and wages start rising, the capitalist (Ruling) class get very worried and start bitching that wages are becoming "Ridiculous"! (Michael O'Leary of Ryanair.) This did not (As far as I know.) happen in Putin's Russia. Maybe that is why the chairwoman of the Russian central bank, wa so tacken aback by the behaviour of the Russian economy?
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  229. The US has set up a very large and very secretive Biological Research Laboratory just outside Tblisi. that seems to be researching what differentiates the Slavic genome from other genomes and how to spread diseases, using drones. mosquitos and fleas. Also how to spread Army Worms and Locusts.
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  230. I don't know about the German Ruling elite's motivations, but my belief is that the British ruling elite's motivation for the Thatcherite deindustrialization of Britain, was fear of and hatred for the Working Class and their overwhelming desire to 'stick it to' the Unions. Slogan: "Make Britain safe for the Ruling Class!"
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  231. 11:32 I have checked and Navalny was in Germany from 2020 to 2021, so he could well have been vaccinated with either Pfizer or Astra-Zenecker vaccine against Cov-19, and many men his age in the West are also dropping at a surprising rate, TV personalities, sports stars, and many others in the prime of life, many of them with circulatory problems. The rate of all-cause deaths, is well up on the average of the pre-covid years throughout the West.
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  232. 13:34 The Wests' MICs are mostly privately owned. They are mostly very influencial over the foreign policy of their governments. (To put it mildly!) This is why the western goverments "pour gasoline on the fires". It is good for the MICs and good for the shareholders thereof, many of whom, I suspect are members of these governments. By contrast, the MICs of Russia and China, at least, are state owned. Selling arms, does not directly benefit the members of these governments.
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  233. 6:49 Trump is beggining to look as though he has "The Mandate of Heaven".
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  234.  @PhilipBaker-sf4yv  Yeah! Could be! Only time will tell.
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  235. 38:00 The whole "Ukraine story" since about 2000, has been discraceful and getting worse all the time
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  236. 12:34 "Hey! Hey! Hey! LBJ How mankid didyer Kill Today?!"
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  237. Soory about the typo. "Manykids"
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  238. PMI stands for "Purchasing Managers Index". How much the purchasing managers think they are going to spend in the next three(?) months.
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  239. 32:54 They have a hatred of Russia and Putin in common. They are not only obssessed, but also deeply irresponsible. "Let the Germans and the Russians fight, that will weaken both and we can pick over the pieces when it is all over. The reason that they are so contemptuous of the Russians for not taking more territory is that they do not value people. "Territory is worth money. People? There plenty more where those came from!"
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  240. 36:28 To my mind, the problem was not so much good ideals leading to bad consequences, as the attractiveness of good ideals, being used to disguise entirely selfish, hegemonic, political and commercial aims.
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  241. It seems that the European"Leaders" are, almost to a man, Israeli assets. This has been achieved over decades by taking over a large part of education and the communications industry and by infiltrating the political parties, with the help of Big Donors.
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  242. 22:20 If you lose land you can recapture it again and again. If you lose men, they are gone forever!
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  243. \i find it incredible that Mr Freeman does not understand that the interests of the American population and the clique running America are different. Clearly, he is right that a neutral Ukraine, forming a buffer state between N@0 and Russia would have been in the interests of the USA population, but the desire of the clique running the US is to destroy Russia, divide it up into half a dozen states and loot it..
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  244. 2:20 Does Ben Wallace's visit to W.D.C. have aby relevance?
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  245. In fact sunflower oil is very damaging to heath. avoid it, if you can.
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  246. Yesterday, I watched a western mercenary, back from Ukraine, interviewed by a Western channel, who said that he thought that about 25% of the weapons sent to Ukraine actually arrived in the country. I don't know where he got his figures, but that, for what it's worth, was his assessment.
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  247. Alexander will be familiar with this but I would like Jimmy and Glenn to see it if they haven't already. Almost all the conflict that has plagued the World since 1945 has originated in the US, because of its obssession with being the World Hegemon. The constsnt war-mongering has its seat in what I call the "Vicious circle" in Washington DC. This circular structure is fed, willy-nilly by the us taxpayer and passes out money to the shareholders and employees of the weapons mfgs and the lobbyist industry, shareholders and employees and the MSM feeds off advertising bought by the weapon mfgs. It consists of various parts: the congress-critters, the weapons manufacturers, the United States Government and the lobbying industry. The vicious circle functions in the following way: being circular there is no startpoint or end point, but I will start with the congress-critters, who vote for payments to the arms mfgs. The government then orders the weapons and pays the weapons mfgs. The weapons mfgs then pay their shareholders and employees and the lobbyists who pay the congress-critters' election expenses on condition that they vote "the right way" and so it goes round and round with the MSM carrying adverts from the arms mfgs and helping along with stories to alarm the general public. This structure is very powerful, very rich, quite ruthless and very well established. So long as it exists in its present form, I doubt that the World will ever know peace. The only solution I can think of, is if the US is handed a resounding defeat in Ukraine and the Russians insist that all arms mfgs must be nationalised enterprises, with no other shareholder than the government of their country. This, by cutting the financial nexus, and removing the built-in conflict of interest bedevilling the arms industry, would kill the "Vicious Circle" stone-dead
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  248. 5:35 Caps on food prices can work well, when combined with Ration Cards as from 1939 to 1952! Britain's public health was never better! Of course you also need full employment. Duh!
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  249. Maybe if Sunak wants to establish better relations with Russia, quietly, he could, perhaps, send his wife to talk to Putin? Or his father-in-law?
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  250. 22:53 Not only will it not be a weaker Russia in a couple of years, if the war lasts that long, but an effect of this war will be to make the Chinese even more keen to build up their forces and stocks of weapons still faster than if the war had not happened.
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  251. 17:36 Shortage of skilled workers in Russia? There is an acute shortage of skilled jobs in Western Europe, particularly in Germany, France and Italy, not to mention the UK. I don't know about the countries of the former Warsaw Pact but I would imagine that it is the same there.
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  252. 24:43 I understood Putin to say that the Russians did not use depleted uranium to make armour piercing shells, they use tungsten which is not radioactive. Tungsten is somewhat toxic,but nothing like the hazard that DU is: the following is a quotation from wikipedia: "People can be exposed to tungsten in the workplace by breathing it in, swallowing it, skin contact, and eye contact. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has set a recommended exposure limit (REL) of 5 mg/m3 over an 8-hour workday and a short term limit of 10 mg/m3.[129]"
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  253. 31:20 "These are not statesmen" and the games they are playing are not designed to benefit the states, not even the United States! No. These games are designed to pander to the obsessions or private interests of the individuals playing them, at the expense of the US and its "allies" and even the rest of the World.
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  254.  @salnaturile8653  Yes, I know. That's no secret, either!
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  255. 3:10 There was nothing illegal about cooperating with RT at the time. There was nothing illegal about working to bring about Brexit. You may not like Farage, but this looks like an abuse of power by non-state actors. Aloow this and we shall have banks taken over by, say, Christian Fundamentalists or a gang of crooks and all the non-Christians or all the honest people, respectively, driven out of the country! I don't see how it can be allowed.
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  256. 10:52 There is an interesting fact (?) about this and other coups in this area. The USA has sent troops to this area some years ago (they are still there) to train the militaries of the area. One after the other, these militaries have staged coups against that France-oriented regimes. The coups however, seem to be pro-Eurasian rather than pro-American. Do you have any comment/info/opinion on this subject? Is it true or is it a myth?
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  257. 23:24 Wasn't the "Domino Theory" a pretty exact analogue of the "Brezhnev Doctrine"?
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  258. 9:13 & Jeremy Corbyn.
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  259. What took you so long?
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  260. "Stools" in the medical use of the word?
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  261. 5:50 Re: Putin? Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [ "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
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  262. 9:36 As I wrote last night : the MSM are NOT "news" outlets, they carry some information merely to cover up their real role, which is spreading government propaganda. Hence the discrepency you speakof.
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  263. 44:23 "Why do we have this relationship; which is unparalelled in modern history" because you in the US have so many double-passport holders in leading position in the USG and burocracy.
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  264. 44:11 Western intelligence agencies always (I think.) have had a different relationship to "Islamic Terrorists" to the FSB. I have never had themimpression that they wanted them testifying in court. They never gave me the impression that they did not expect the attack and some of the incidents were fantastically improbable, like the same cameraman filming an attack by Islamic terrorists in Munich one week and then "just happening to be" in the right spot, in the South of France to film another lot of Islamic terrorists, mowing down people walking on the Promenade (Or was it the beach?) in the next. As to the Crocus terrorist being "roughed up", I would imagine they probably resisted arrest and anyway they were running around in a forest in the dark and I would imagine, that the policemen who arrested them did not feel overly sympathetic to them, even if they had orders to take them alive.
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  265. 4:53 The Lloyd Austin story also shows that there is very littlefear of really serious fighting breaking out. (With apologies to those fighting in Ukraine and Gaza!)
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  266. If one regards the international scene as a chess game; this is a move by the Red Queen and threatens Mate, some time in the next three or four moves! I don't like MBS, but I hope he has assembled a really competent Praetorian Guard. Somehow, I think he is going to need it.
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  267. Yes. @user-markH68  But it's not all that new. Lewis Carrol was guying this sort of thinking in "The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in eight fits)" a century and a half ago.
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  268. 19:27 I think that to be effective, ammunition must contain a lot of energy. Is finding the energy going to be a problem for the EU?
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  269. 21:16 Crucially, the US will not be able to sanction trade in BRICS currency. It will not even be able to follow trade in BRICS currency. (Or at least, that is what I have understood.)
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  270.  @sw-en7wb  Agreed.
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  271. 25:13 It looks to me as though the Western Millitary as a whole, perhaps through their training and a lack of experience of fighting a peer adversary, are sufferring from delusions of competence. They seem to behave more like drunken gamblers than like strategists.
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  272. 29:30 The Greens want lots more wind turbines, which involve a lot of nickel which comes mostly from Russia. (And WTs need rare earths and semi-conductor chips, all sourced from China.) Where are they going to get them? Come to think about it, they also want a lot of solar panels, which also come from China, or if they make their own, the raw materials come from China. How likely is it that China will supply people who are trying to hurt Russia?
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  273. 20:53 Another factor is that the War in Ukraine has shown that militarily, the US is a lot less fearsome, than it used to appear.
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  274. 17:09 Just to compound their problems they are now going to war with their biggest market.
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  275. 2:49 "What were these people thinking?" They were thinking "Russia BAD! N*ZIs GOOD! They fought the BAD RUSSIANS!" I wonder how Canadian WW2 veterans react to this story?
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  276. Another interesting aspect of this new cold war, is that this time the warmongers are on the economically weaker side. That alone should make it very different.
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  277. 17:00 This case concerns not only lives lost, but lives which still can be saved. So, really, speed should be of the essense!
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  278. 7:13 The EU is going in for de-industrialization because that is what Washington wants.
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  279. 28:09 Yes, that research was in the papers released at the start of the SMO when the Russians captured some of the "Biological Research Labs" (Tm Victoria Nuland). They collected DNA from Russia-speaking Ukrainians and they were also researching the birds which wintered somewhere in the South and migrated to the North of Russia in the Springtime, passing through Ukraine on their way North. Planned genocide, to say the least.
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  280. 16:05 It occurs to me that probably, (Just guessing) the USAmericans will be far more concerned about the war in Israel than they are about the one in Europe.
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  281. 35:05 Any legal sophistry, is likely to merely further put off, anyone that might be thinking of parking some money for safe keeping. The "Cleverer" the argument the more off-putting it would be. "These people are not just crooks they are devilishly cunning with it!"
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  282. 15:04 Isn't Boko Harem an offshoot of the CIA?
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  283. 13:30 Wouldn't it make life for European governments ever so much simpler, if, if only, they could restore the supply of Cheap Russian Gas?
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  284. 35:22 It seems to me that the situation you are describing; where the US troops are back to where they were in, say,1990, and Europe was not threatening Russia, would now be inadequate. Suppose the US pulled out of Europe completely and Europe was, so to speak, pacified, That would still leave US bases all around the Central Asian states and China; and how long would it be, before the WoWs would be up to their old tricks? IMHO the settlement has to be more "Root & Branch" than that and given the disarray that the US/NATO is in at the moment, there is a once-in-a-century chance for the Russians and the Chinese to make it happen without a war.
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  285. 8:10 Listening to AC, I realised that the hunt for "Terrorists" exactly mirrors the medieval hunt for "Heretics" and later for "Catholics" and then, in turn for "Dissenters", "Diggers", "Levellers", "Anarchists", "Communists", & "Drug Pushers". It seems that the Ruling Class, always requires a "dangerous enemy" and lacking such, will always manufacture it. It does so because it is always afraid of its working classes and feels the need for extra protection against it. Hence the "Special Branch in Britan, and Homeland Security (and the other 16 or so 3-letter agencies) in the US.
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  286. 21:02 It also probably explains why Putin is so careful about, for example , what he eats and drinks. Hr gets jeered at by the Western MSM for bringing his own drink with him to meetings, but personally, I'm glad he does.
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  287. 1:11:38 Apart from Africa, there are at last two other conflicts under way or preparing, one in Thailand Myanmar and the other in the Phipines!
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  288. 22:37 Wishful thoughts seem to be very precious, to the people that have them. Such people are very loath to give up their wishful ideas and substitute them with cold,hard truths. I confess that I have noticed this tendency even in myself.
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  289. After the $300 Billion is spent, What are they goingto do next? Force the Banks to bail Ukraine out?
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  290. The Versailles Treaty was drafted, I believe, by two young US lawyers, John Foster and Alan Dulles. Just saying!
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  291.  @annarock8966  Britain had an agreement with the Soviet Union to share techniques that would aid the war effort. Britain did not even share penicillin. For evidence of what I am saying, see the 1949 film "The Third Man": Directed by Carol Reed. With Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard.
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  292. 11:22 Absolutely! Reading predictions about today made in the past is hilarious!
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  293. 1:03:44 One thing that the Russians are not going to do is to trust the Western powers. At least,I don't see how they could. Any such manifestation of trust would, surely, be widely regarded in Russia as a betrayal.
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  294. 31:18 Note also that the Israeli ruling class is also obsessed with territory. Much less with soldiers lives.
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  295. 15:32 It is precisely because the US has never worried about killing civilians that they whole-heartedly backed the g*nocid*l policies of their ally in the ME. They have never seen anything wrong with killing civilians and because they were perceived as being undefeatably strong they were allowed to get away with it. Since the failure of the "Multi-seasonal Offensive" in Ukraine, perceptions have changed, the fragile nature of the paper-tiger has come into focus and the whole edifice, which was held together by fear, has started to crumble away at an astonishing pace. Another point is (I don't know how important it is) that the war in Gaza has elements of an inter-religious war, which means, that at least on the Muslim side, people may well be willing to take inordinate risks, "to defeat the invaders", thinking that even if they die in the cause, they will automatically go to Heaven as Matryrs.
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  296. 39:10 The thing which has freed up the majority of the countries in the UN, to an extraordinary extent , is the failure of NATO in Ukraine. That this "Greatest and Most Powerful Military Machine That The World Has Ever Seen" has been shown up as a paper tiger, has had an electrifying effect on the way countries have been willing to say "No!" to US demands, like never before.
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  297. Too right! If a Putin-like figure emerged in the Collective West (CW) he would be described, vilified as an Anti-Semite or worse and almost nothing he said would be accurately reported in the MSM. Furthermore any alternative medium that tried to report him accurately would be closed down.
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  298. I liked the remark that someone made, that he thought the story "Fifty Shades of Grey" was a biography of John Major.
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  299. c.13:00 Denazification. There was no will to denazify West Germany. E.g. the Gehlen Organization was taken over by the Anglo-US wholesale, as was. It very much spawned the rebirth of the NA*i in Ukraine, but it acted as a US Intelligence Agency throughout Eastern Europe during the Cold War. (Perhaps still does?) The judges appointed during Hit*er times were not purged and nor were the teachers or the police.
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  300. Boris threw it all away for Brownie points in Washington.
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  301.  @bengale9977  Too right!
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  302. 11:06 It is also possible that the ideaology of these 2special" units causes them to relish the thought of battling Russians. Maybe it makes them feel heroic or perhaps martyrs?
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  303. I wonder, were the drones the Israelis sent reconnaissance drones, designed to transmit back info about Iranian defences?
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  304. 13:29 This is not well thought through by me, but the contradiction between the statements of Bloomberg and the German Energy Minister's and the attitude of the UKG, suggests to me that the energy situation is much easier than the elites are letting on and that their real aim is the impoverishment, immiseration and deindustrialization of Europe, which is what , I think, you were suggesting back in February. I suppose if Jeremy Corbyn were to suggest some sensible policies, no one would get to hear about them.
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  305. 9:51 You are talking about les "ecoles normals", I imagine. The policy of sending "second class elites" to run colonies, in this day and age, sounds remarkably stupid! I did not know about that. &btw the Portuguese were also colonizers in Africa. How are they coping with the independence of their ex-colonies? That was a very bloody divorce!
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  306.  @jason8434  What you say is at least partly true, but, the Western socialists were able to make a lot of temporary gains in Western Europe after WW2, because the ruling class were scared that they were going to face a revolution if they did not match the benefits that the Russian working classes had gained by theirs.
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  307.  @elenaustyuzhanina297  Yes I would agree with that. Make sure you keep those benefits! You will need to keep a close eye on any proposed "Reforms" of them. Ruling classes are always looking for ways to claw those rights and benefits back! Any proposed "Reform" needs to be looked at very closely, in the light of the old question "Qui bono?" For example: In the late '50s, there was in Britain almost no "Drugs problem". There were a very few ex-colonial civil servants who had acquired an opium habit during their service in the far East. These were treated free by the NHS. The police were almost completely unarmed. The Conservative government under PM Harold MaMillan, said that this "free treatment of a very few despicable characters" was unfair to the rest of the population and in future they would have to pay for their prescriptions, thus joining the US's "War on Drugs", which started about the same time. The result was a huge boost to Organised Crime's finances and a real "Drugs Problem" and many more armed police. I think the next to go, in Britain, was free dental treatment.
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  308. 10:24 I think the people running the West were, perhaps still are, living in the "World" that they have created in their own minds, where what they say goes. Where they are all-powerful and where they lead the world follows.
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  309. 13:50 We have had Ukrainian soldiers filming themselves, announcing their own names, showing their faces and boasting about, and showing the world, how they were equipping quadricopters with poison gas cannisters, to bomb Russian troops with, among other nasties, Hydrogen cyanide. Presumably, (?) the OPCW will be investigating shortly.
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  310.  @vagabondvibes2578  You'll get more truth and good advice from Putin shills, than from the government or the media.
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  311. 28:19 Joe Biden is not a "lame Duck" president. He is a "Busted Flush" president. I wonder which the European Commission would prefer as C-in-C of the Collective West: Trump or Kamala?
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  312.  @tonyedwards3938  Not a lot!
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  313. c.6:30 ICI and I.G.Farbenindustrie held joint board meetings every six months, in Madrid, throughout WW2.
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  314. 11:20 "we can also provide the wind-turbines and we can show you how to green your deserts!"
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  315. 27:58 The best analogy that I can think of is "Walking on thin ice".
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  316. The "Far Right" used to have a particular, reasonably well-defined meaning. For example one could say that Sir Oswald Mosley's Party the BUF was on the far right. Those days have however, to quote Hans Breitmann: "Gone mit der Evigkeit"! Today, "the far right" (Or come to that: "the far left") is anything or anyone that you hate or want others to hate, quite irrespective of their policies.
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  317. 21:24 Shooting the breeze! Chewing the fat!
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  318. I think the "Baluchistan Liberation Front" (Or whatever it is called) is an offshoot of the CIA, just like the Taliban, ISIS, Al Qaida and all the rest. I dont think it is under the control of the Pakistan government.
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  319. Apologies for posting this twice.
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  320.  @hermitoldguy6312  Yes agreed. However, the coment is interesting in the context of frequent statements that "NATO is not at war with Russia".
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  321.  @Lionheart-n6m  Thanks. I rather thought so!
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  322. 15:24 Telling Sirsky to "Hold on until the November elections." is not just absurd, it is a clear indication of Zelensky's puppet-status; sacrificing Ukrainian lives to win a result in a foreign election! Howzzat for treachery?!
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  323. 17:24 There is no doubt in my mind that when BoJo and Biden promised "Unlimited aid", until Russia was defeated, they meant it seriously. They believed, like nearly everyone else, that NATO was, vastly more powerful than it has turned out to be. They thought that NATO was a real Tiger and that Russia was a pussy-cat by comparison! Well that's what happens when you believe your own propaganda instead of doing the necessary calculations and research. They had no idea how many shells and drones and missiles and airplanes and helicopters the Russians had, nor how few the West had and they believed that the Russian forces were stupid, lazy, incompetent, corrupt, badly trained, badly armed, disorganized and mutinous. So of course, they thought the well-trained, battle-hardened, motivated, well-armed Ukrainians were going to wipe the floor with the Russians. Why would they not have thought that?
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  324. You can't have a functioning democracy where the MSM is all or even 90% controlled by one faction.
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  325. One of the things that very few people seem to understand is that there is no requirement or even pressure on the "News Outlets" to tell the truth! They can tell any lie they like, almost, and the worst that will happen to them, is that they will lose viewers or readers.
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  326. 1:26:08 That is THE problem, isn't it? The US says: "We are the source, the only source of stability!" And at the same time sets about creating instability, to keep the MIC funded.
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  327.  @Avbait-t2u  I don't suppose you can! There's none so blind as those that won't see.
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  328. 22:13 I think was is constraining Zaluzhny from admitting that the war is lost and giving up, is that he is a dyed-in-the-wool Narsie and as such does not fancy his chances in Russian captivity. I suspect that he may well prefer to die fighting. Why do I call him that? Well, he volunteered to go and fight the Donbas Militias in 2014.
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  329. This is not a REAL "regime change". It's not "real" because the ideology has not changed, only the puppets have changed. A real RC would involve a change of e.g. policy towards Russia, Ukraine, the US or the EU or all of them. This "RC" does not even change the party! (Not that that would be much of a "change" if the new party were Labour.)
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  330. Why critise us for trading with the Russians, when we are also trading with you? Is that also fuelling your war machine?
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  331. 10:43 "It's going to weaken the German econmy even further." I wonder does the German Green party get any of its funding from the NED or from George Soros?
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  332. 17:14 The case of the invisible Elephant in the room!
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  333. Anything Ukraine does is almost certainly cleared with Washington, so you need to ask what benefit does Washington get from Ukraine turning off the gas to Europe?
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  334. 18:20 Not to forget that the Czechs are, or at least were great arms manufacturers.
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  335. About pronunciation: Xi Jinping is pronounced:" She (as in English) gin (as in English) Ping (as in Ping-Pong.) In the case of Wang Yi, the Wang is propounced Wong to rhyme with "gong", not with "Bang!"
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  336. 12:48 These "warnings" could also be preparing the ground for a false-flag use of a mini-nuke in Ukraine. The Russians have no need to use nuclear weapons, as they are winning without.
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  337. 26:11 One of the things that has become clear as a result of the war in Ukraine, where the Western Alliance has been giving military advice, at the General to General level, is that the West lacks competent Generals!
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  338. 28:13 Contraditions? You mean like using Badererrites to further and protect Democracy?
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  339. 9:03 I think and have thought for a long time, that you will not be considered for an official position (elected or selected) unless you have at least one skeleton in your cupnoard.
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  340.  @TheCuriousLemming  " our own leaders are more than partially to blame." You're still kidding yourself! Our leaders are entirely to blame!! What did the Russians do to deserve any part of this?
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  341. 6:31 Doesn't this demented behaviour insistantly suggest, that the POTUS is a puppet? And doesn't that beg the question: is it just Biden that is a puppet or is it always the case? And, in either case, if so, who is pulling the strings?
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  342. If the US did not like Imran Khan being elected, you can be certain that from the moment he took office, they would have been working around the clock, to ensure that his time in office, was not a great success.
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  343. Why does Prof Mearsheimer see either Russsia or China as a "Threat"? What are they threatening to do?
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  344. 1:03:50 If you don't have the vocabulary, you don't have the concepts and without the concepts you cannot think clearly about the subject in consideration. So losing the vocabulary of diplomacy is a very serious matter.
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  345. Tien An Men was a color revolution too.
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  346.  @cbdp  I think it was undermined. For instance, Germany had a very good banking system of small regional banks which worked well with SMEs. That has been largely destroyed in favour of large banks which are interested only in large firms and neglect small ones.
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  347. 4:54 The "Coalition of the Insignificant" can hardly expect to achieve anything without air superiority. None of them have the men or machines or the wherewithall to provide that. Air superiority would take massive amounts of fuel.
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  348. 43:34 I don't see defeat in Ukraine as a disaster, well, not for ordinary people. It will be a disaster, I hope and believe for the ptb. It will certainly completely destroy the prestige of N@0 and I hope, will result in the end of the US's drive to be World Hegemon and what the Russians were asking for in December 2021, a treaty or series of treaties, ensuring the security interests of the whole of Europe, Russia and the US (And China too!)
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  349. 17:00 You also have to remove whoever is behind all this. The WEF, perhaps?
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  350. 14:32 It isn't a contradiction, its a fraud. The reality is the hard-nosed bully "You do it my way or else!" the Soft and gentle, tolerant image, is a disguise, a camoflage.
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  351. The behaviour you are talking about is exactly like the conduct of the German forces in occupied Russia and other Slavic countries, during WW2, like their herding people into a ban and then burning it to the ground which I think they did in both Czecoslovakia (Lidice) and France (Oradour), If a government talks kike a Nartsie government and behaves like a Nartsie government why would you think that it is not a Nartsie government? Sure it will be a wrench for both of you, to digest this, but facts are facts and illusions are essentially unhealthy things to have.
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  352. 31:13 Perhaps, part of the trouble with the Israeli behaviour in this crisis is the all-pervasive mediocrity of Western governments?
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  353. Alexander's remark about criminals is interesting. I did not know that! But I suppose it is obvious that they would think that way. And yes, it is probably, by extension also true of our leaders, they are after, all criminals, almost to a man or woman!
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  354.  @richardanson2445  You are right, but that has nothing to do with what I said. I was talking about what Netanyahoo wants. He has made pretty clear what he wants.
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  355.  @WilliamMurphy-vu8rk  Not true. I said nothing about the current population of Israel. You are changing the subject.
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  356.  @Steinstra-vj7wl  I did not mention the present state of Israel. I was writing about : "What Netanyahoo wants". It helps to read and understand what you are reading before you "answer".
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  357.  @richardanson2445  Another one who does not read and understand before "answering"! I wrote about : "What Netanyahoo wants". This has nothing to do with "who lives where."
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  358.  @WilliamMurphy-vu8rk  And a third one! So many people who are not bothering to read before they reply!
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  359. 9:24 I remember that during WW2 there was an offence called: "Causing alarm and despondency". i should think such a law would certainly cover what Prigozhin was doing!
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  360. IMOH Maduro should refuse to do ANYTHING to help the US, before he gets his gold back. Having that would be a psychological blow to his enemies and would give him immediate economic clout.
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  361. You can take this "Putin the All-Powerful" story further: he can not only win elections for Donald Trump, but he can do it with only $12,000's worth of advertising!!! What a publicist!! Eat yer heart out Madison Avenue!! He can raise the price of petrol (Gas) at the American pump and the President and all the president's men, cannot bring it down?! He can disappear all the baby formula and the USG cannot stop him? Just imagine what America would be like if they had Putin for President!!! Scary!
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  362. 9:08 In medieval times the Italians produced armour for knights which was totally unsuitable for battle, but which was intended to look wonderful in a parade. There is also the story that when our moustachioed friend vitisted Italy, Mussolini had a huge number of cardboard battle tanks built and had them stationed all along the railway line that the visitor's train would travel. He also had the entire Italian army, send everyone it could spare for the day, to stand around near the tanks, so that his guest, got an entirely false impression of Italy's military might. Come to think of it, I once met a man who had been a tanker in North Africa during WW2. He told me that Italian tanks were much safer to be in than US or British tanks because they were made of such thin material that a bullet would pass straight tthrough them and unless you happened to be in the wrong place you were unhurt. Also they were much lighter and therefore much speedier than the lumbering giants of the allies, If you got hit by an anti-tank rocket the chances were that it too, would pass straight through without exploding, while if you were in an allied tank you would almost certainly be killed by the spray of molten steel that came into the interior.
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  363. Interesting point: Nato protects its members against being attacked. Does that mean that if one member attacks a non-member, the other members all have to come to its aid? I would have thought not!
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  364. 1:31:16 The obvious conclusion from your discussion, is that there is a fundamental flaw in democracy. Being elected by the people is not a sufficient filter. It is an urgent neccessity to have, to devise, a system that not only filters out the unpopular but, much more importantly, the stupid and the ignorant as well. Come to think about it, maybe filtering out the unpopular is not neccessarily a good idea!
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  365. 7:53 The "Isra*lis want to destroy Ham*s" That is not quite accurate. They are using "destroying Ham*s" as a cover for killing P*lestini*ns.
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  366. Perhaps, Prigozhin is an illustration of one of the dangers in allowing private armies to exist? I have always thought that the example of the Praetorian Guard deciding who was to be the next Emperor, should give any government cause for a LOT of thought before allowing such organizations to exist in their state.
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  367. It seems to me "Highly Likely" that this is an example of a US attack on Germany. In any case, the leaders of both Canada and Germany are virtue-signalling dealogues.
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  368.  @ianstobie  Thanks.
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  369. 21:46 Tony Blair is himself Jewish.
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  370.  @Dee-mj3pu  So did the Spanish Jews who set up the Spanish Inquisition.
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  371. May be the reason that fascists have this obsession with territory rather than soldiers is that fascism is a death cult and values things more than people?
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  372. 24:13 China has also dealt with, at least two, color revolution attempts. Tien An-men and Hong Kong.
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  373. Why is the west so inimical to Russia? I think a lot of the blame must go to the MSM. This goes way back, to long before WW1. The British elites were always fearful that the Russians were going to "steal" the Indian Empire from them! "The Great Game" goes back to well before MacKinder and the MSM in the 19th Century was always making flesh-creeping stories about the Russians. When in 1904, the Russian Baltic Fleet came past Britain on its way to the Far East, there was nearly a panic in London. Do you remember the scare when some Scotsman reported seeing a platoon of Russian soldiers marching in the Highlands? On inquiry he "knew" they were Russians (It turned out.) "because they had snow on their boots". (Sic.)
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  374. 32;25 Perhaps the decline in the power of the MSM will help in bringing about real progress in Israel?
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  375. 16:08 Good point! This is something that NO western commentator ever points out: that it is the US which is starting these fights. Every time, either an FFO or a poke in the eye, the fight is initiated by the US. Usually, the only visible beneficiary is the US MIC and its shareholders. When, for how long, is the World going to stop suffering these insults and turn on these War Criminals and hold them to account? It won't happen soon enough, but happen it surely sometime will!
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  376. NAT* is still running Gladio, or at least I have not heard that it has been closed down.
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  377. 37:47 It seems to me that one has to understand that Hamas has a triple nature; it is one sense, an Israeli proxy organ, having been set up abd finaced by the Israeli government as a counter to the PLO and in order to discredit the Palestine cause in the eyes of the World. It also has elements of a genuine liberation organization fighting against the Israeli government, their repressive and the settlers. Thirdly it is an elected government with the usual preoccupations and attributes of any government. Although any one of these aspects may be the most evident at any one moment, one has to bear in mind that all three are existent, all the time.
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  378. 1:00 The confusion of political "Left" and "Right" has been a disaster for political discussions because you could not understand what anyone meant!
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  379. 8:10 Typically, NATO uses terrorist tactics, I have even heard mercenaries say that they were taught by NATO instructors to use civilian housing blocks, hospitals and schools (with civilians in them) as artillery positions. So it seems quite likely, even probable that they would target cilians too with their long range strikes, just as, for the past ten years, they have been shelling Donetsk City.
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  380.  @alexdetrojan4534  Yes. They fire bombed Dresden, Hamburg and A-bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima, During WW2. These were all civilian targets. They bombed North Korea to the ground, Not a building left standing. They massacred the inhabitants of the village of MY Lai in Viet Nam among many ,many other crimes of the same nature. They carpet-bombed Mosul and Raqqa, they burned the Syrians fields of just ripe wheat, they ran the ghastly torture camp at Abu Graib and they still run the concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay. This is but a small selection of the terrorist tactics that have been used by the US and its proxy NATO.
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  381. 12:39 "Xi Jinping has formulated some sort of response to the sanctions as well". I'm not sure that I have got this correct, but, I have heard (From the Electric Viking.) that China has passed a decree that from July there will be no more ICE cars sold in China.(!) If this is true (and I can hardly believe it is) it will be a huge blow to the likes of VW, Peugeot, and GM and much less so, to the Chinese manufacturers who make mostly electric vehicles. They have also told Boeing that they will not buy any of their products as they sell weapons to Taiwan. At the same time they placed an order for hundreds of planes from Airbus.
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  382. 7:31 The Biden White House has never shown any sign of having any interest in humanity. They consistently preside over policies which kill people, in large numbers, frequently in horrible ways and never show anything more resembling sympathy than crocodile tears. As you say, they are interested in retaining power above all else and to the exclusion of everything else.
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  383. 15:56 The shambolic situation, is entirely caused by the political leaders of the CW being expert in nothing industrial, or technical and having entirely misjudged what the Russian reaction to their provocation in Ukraine was going to be. The situation is made more impossible still by the need for any company that might want to make, e.g. 155mm shells to set up a steel forging plant and make a profit! If they were to want to fill the shells with high explosive, they would have to source that (It probably used to come from Ukraine!) and set up training for operatives to do the filling and for inspectors to keep a very close eye indeed on how they were doing it and more inspectors to pass the finished product. None of that can be done safely in a hurry. One mistake, in a factory making such things, can destroy it utterly, in an instant.
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  384. 7:20 "Bulls in china shops " Anyone?
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  385. 41:04 It isn't even as though the sacrifice of these young lives is going to make any fundamental difference! Do they want to depopulate Ukraine?
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  386.  @dsm5d723  Note the Deepin Moments' video headlined: "Support Russia! German People Set Fire To US Consulate."
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  387. 28:04 Its not just that the US benefits from the Nordstream sabotage (NSS), that Biden, Sullivan (Or was it Blinken?) and Nuland said they were going to NSS, that they had the means to carry out NSS, and that they also had the opportunity to do the deed, but that the site of NSS, was heavily patrolled by N@0 and any Russian Naval Vessel in those waters would have been closely watched. If that is not an "open & shut case", it must be pretty close! So you have statement of intent, the opportunity, the means, the motive, and an alibi for everyone, else except those who might have done it for the US.
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  388. This pressure on the Green Agenda, this Wash DC support for the Green Agenda, is primarily aimed at crippling European Industry. The Greens just got lucky.
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  389. 9:07 It would be interesting to know how many of the EU leaders feature in JE's litlle book. Lavrov has said how when he asked many representatives in the UN why they had voted the way they had, i.e. in the way that the US wanted them to vote, they had told him that they and their families were threatened if they didn't. If one believes Lavrov is telling the truth (Which I do.) then it is easy to see that the same treatment may be being meted out to European "Leaders".
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  390. 18:22 The difference from 1917 Russia is, that there are no revolutionaries working away at making a New United States or a PRA! More's the pity!
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  391. 7:46 Pipeline sabotage; have you noticed that TFI Global are accusing the US of planning to attack the Norwegian pipeline?
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  392. 17:00 KS cannot fix the UK's problems, but electing him will enable the problems to be "kicked down the road".
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  393. 27:49 One of the ways that the CW is falling behind is in relation to the Belt&road Initiative. The US announced that it was going to compete with the Chinese in building infrastructure throughout the global South. It looks as though that is going to fall victim to the current financial crisis in the CW, but so far there has been some talk, but almost nothing has been built. Meanwhile the Chinese have built railways, tunnels, docks, roads, hospitals and schools worth multiple billions of dollars and are looking to build more.
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  394. 18:48 Permanent Secretary for Ukrainian Affairs, Die verehrte Frau Ursula von der Leyen.
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  395. You say that the country was stable with the Labour governments. I would say that these Labour governments were by way of being Pseudo-Socialist governments. In 1945 they nationalized the parts of the economy that the stock exchange did not want to fund and they ran the "Commanding Heights" of the economy in a way that subsidized Big Business for example, ICI got coal at a small fraction of the price that the ordinary consumer paid and the same with electricity. Thus in effect making the working people subsidizes big business. This enabled the MSM to harp on the theme that "Socialism is all very well in theory, but in practice it always makes a loss. (True of course if your socialism is run by Tories!) After the nationalized industries had been modernized at the cost of the working people, they were sold off at a low price to friends of the government. These "Socialists" were also firmly tied to Washington's apron strings. That is why the advent of a Labour government caused no upset in the Establishment.
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  396. The scheme in the USA whereby sponsors pay lobbyists to pay large sums into the election funds of candidates who, once elected, vote funds for the government to buy the products of the sponsors' firms, which provides the funds for the lobbyist to pay the for the congress critter to get re-elected, is what one might call a "vicious circle". (The tangent to the VC is the "Revolving Door".) This vicious circle, is a very strong structure, with very deep roots and will be very difficult to destroy. It is also the antithesis of democracy.
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  397.  @hallu6666  Sounds typically petty and vindictive.
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  398. 3:13 It is hardly surprising that the troops defending Avdiivka broke and ran, because they were a barely trained rabble. Brave they were, but they were hopelessly out of their depth.
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  399. Democracy, where most of the demos gets their information from six capitalist corporations, who by definition will do whatever makes them and their shareholders the most money, is patent nonsense! Until one can, somehow, get media that are really independent organizations dedicated to putting out information that is as near the truth as they can get, "Democracy" is just a charming, distant dream. There is nothing like living in a democracy and living in Europe is nothing like living in a democracy. What little resemblance it has to a democracy is being whittled away pretty rapidly.
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  400. 17:18 It is a fact that the Chinese and the Russians are upholding International Law and the US and the UK are NOT, as witness the case of Diego Garcia. As witness the illegal occupation of Syria and Iraq, as witness the attack on Haiti, as witness the illegal Sanctions on all sorts of countries. China and Russia are, as far as I can remember not doing any of these things. This is NOT a "trap", it is simply these things coming into common view and general discussion. The Chinese and Russians talking about them, is hardly surprising, why would they not? After all they are continually bad-mouthed by the CW and its tame media.
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  401. 30:29 "The lady doth protest too much methinks"The dialogue "The lady doth protest too much methinks" appears in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet in Act 3, Scene 2. Presumably, when you made this video, you did not know about the alleged hacking of Lizz Truss's iPhone.
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  402. 27:39 May I suggest that the whole situation and how it is controlled is made clear in a video entitled: "WAR Against NATO Not Russia | China vs. USA | BRICS | Michael Hudson " As to how the Green Party got such powerful positions in the present government, I would look to the activities of the Israeli embassy and the NED.
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  403.  @kathylarson8876  That would not surprise me.
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  404. 27:30 I think the Russians were slower than the Collective West, because the CW journalists were all primed and ready to go, maybe, had their pieces written well in advance, while the Russians were reacting to events as they were reported and were therefore necessarily slower.
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  405. If NATO keeps on "doubling down" and runs right out of ammunition, or even nearly, it must be a considerable temptation to the Russians to "settle with the CW, once and for all". I shall be very interested to see how far they push us when this war ends. I imagine that there will be quite a large number of ordinary Russians, who will see this as an opportunity not to be missed.
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  406. What are they going to use the weapons for? Are they going to fight the Russians? The Chinese? Where are they going to get the energy from?
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  407. 17:16 It used to be that the Chinede imported all the wheels for their highspeed trains (HST) from Germany. Something like 2 million/year IIRC. About two years ago, the Germans abruptly cut off the supply. So the Chinese worked out how to make them themselves. They need a lot of them, because they change the wheels on their HSTs after they have done two million miles of travel.
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  408. All armies are primarily focused on internal enemies. (This is usually hidden.) They need, however, an external threat to justify their existence. This means that so long as we have a European Army, we shall have either a hot or a cold war with someone. Probably Russia, possibly China, quite likely both. Perhaps even the USA!
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  409. 18:37 I remember visiting Eastern Europe in the 1948 to 1963 period and being amazed at how rapidly the destroyed cities were being restored. Even in 1949 huge progress was already visible. Much faster than in the UK for example.
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  410. 25:12 With Biden being POTUS how can anyone imagine that the President of the USA is "Running America"? I mean! Could he run a sweet shop? This provokes the question: does the POTUS run the USA or is he a figurehead?
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  411.  @NachttiSchlampE65  @JokerDR71 Denk ich auch. Hab rund um 2014/15 regelmäßig blau gewählt, weil die die einzige relevante Partei war, die die heutigen Probleme kommen sehen konnte. Inzwischen sind mir da zu viele fragwürdige Gestalten dabei, aber kann ich immer noch verstehen , warum man AfD wählt = I think so too. I regularly voted blue around 2014/15 because it was the only relevant party that could see today's problems coming. There are now too many questionable characters in it for me, but I can still understand why people vote for the AfD.
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  412.  @NachttiSchlampE65  You're welcome!
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  413.  @NachttiSchlampE65  Your welcome.
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  414. Posted at 15:00hrs 3/9/24
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  415. 19:03 I don't know that you would want to go there, but I would be very interested to hear your take on the organization called "Gladio". No doubt, it had a relationship to the "Red Brigades", "Bader-Meinhof Gang" & all the rest.
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  416. I hope that some day soon, the Chinese will do a series of encores and negotiate a peace between North and South Korea and between Pakistan and India. Maybe even Israel, Iran and Syria!
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  417. 8:00 Of course the economy of Germany is going down. The US does not want competition from anyone not even from its "allies" (vassals). Look at Japan, look at GB, look at any of the Collective West countries and ask yourself which of them are prospering? Answer (Correct me if I'm wrong.) none. Which are doing best? The least cooperative, i.e. Hungary.
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  418. 5:21 The lack of plausible replacements is really extraordinary! How to explain it? We British have had dud PMs before but never such a dearth of believable stand-ins. It looks almost as though, someone or something was weeding out any capable candidate.
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  419. 8:06 Sounds like the Uncle Remus story of "Brer Fox and the Tar Baby".
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  420. 24:54 Since when has Ukraine been "near to China?"
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  421. Minus the men with pitchforks.
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  422.  @brandtbollers3183  Yes. I thought so.
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  423. I can't agree that Today we are "back to where we started from"! There has been a huge change in the time since David "Porky" Cameron was PM! China has grown enormously in strength and reolution and more importantly still the whole Ukrainian affaire has moved on tremendously and Russia has just about defeated the "invincible" NATO. Things in the Middle East are totally different too.
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  424. 32:09 I think a parallel to the SMO that you might explore, is the invasion of Tanzania of Uganda to free it from Idi Amin Dada.
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  425. Dr Sachs has leaned a lot since he was writing in the New Scientist in the 2010 (?) period, when he did not seem prepared to admit that a financial system where banks invented money and then lent it out at interest, was inherently unstable and would lead inevitably to a financial debt crisis. Great that one so old can still update his thinking! .
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  426. Sorry! Not 6:12 but 3:45.
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  427. What can you call people who support N*ZIs with weapons, money, propaganda, training areas and moral support? People like Johnson, Blinken, Sullivan, Macron, Scholtz, Draghi, and all the rest? (There is only one answer.)
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  428. 30:00 "This is a one time thing, this is not going to happen commonly" The West might have got away with that once upon a time, but not after Iran and Venezuela had their assets impounded and in Iran's case impounded for fourteen years and in Venezuela's case, given to a "President", "appointed" by the USG! These countries may be "backward" but they are not terminally stupid.
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  429. A few minutes ago, I looked at the subjects you two had covered in the last few days, as presented in Yahoo UK. Such a load of BS! It reminded me of Matilda! I felt like her Aunt. "Matilda told such awful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes! Her Aunt, who from her earliest youth Had had a strict regard for truth Attempted to believe Matilda. The effort very nearly killed her!"
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  430.  @SuanLuang  As I usually do, I agree with every thing Lavrov says there.
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  431.  @Xaq_udirir  Yes! It really underlies the whole of the Cold War and "Russophobia".
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  432. 13:04 You two know the USA much better than I do: how do you think a US intervention in Black Africa would play out with Black Americans?
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  433. 20:20 It's not just finger pointing, it is that the people pointing their fingers are such obvious hypocrites! "You lock up people without due process!" "Well, so do you. Many times as many as we do!" Etc., etc.
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  434. I don't know. Who ever it was was very clever. Perhaps it was inspired by reading Orwell's "1984".
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  435. I hope and expect that the BRICS+6 will be not only a trading system but also a system to help countries develop and to protect each other.
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  436.  @woodytobiasjr8265  Sending the army into Gaza "to root out Hamas" is , yes, likely to lead to something very similar!
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  437. 1:10:52 You ask why the Ukrainians don't want to negotiate with the Russians but seem determined to get a worse beating than they have had up to now? Their policy is made in Washington DC and the point of the war is to kill as many Russians as possible. To do that the war needs to continue. Hard luck on the Ukrainians and their mercenary helpers but who is worried about them? Not the Neocons in Washington, that's certain!
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  438. 48:57 The "leaders" of the Collective West are quite clearly a collection of US (Neo-con, Neo-lib) puppets. I see no other way to explain their actions.
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  439. 1:32:54 The whole drive for all this rampant folly is a perrenial effort to get into a tactically advantageous position from which, Russia can be conquered and eventually looted, a la 1990. This has driven the Cold War and motivated almost everything in Western (Aka US) policy for many decades, perhaps back to 1917.
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  440. 22:08 I wonder has Alexander seen the piece in the Telegraph, today by Hamish de Bretton -Gorgdon called: "Putin's Nuclear Arsenal is Crumbling, Ukraine can take it out For Good" ? Talk about "Warmongering"!
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  441. I have read that when Tony Blair was PM he used to get his instructions from Lord Levy (Levi?) who spoke to him in quite condescending and contemptuous ways. Has LL been dethroned?
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  442. 45:06 One thing you can be certain of is that wherever, whenever and however Prigozhin met his fate, according to the Western media, it would be Putin's fault.
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  443.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  He was smuggling the diluted penicillin across into the Soviet Zone, because the Russians did not have it. They should have been given info on how to make it (if Britain had lived up to their promises) during the war when they had desperate need of it. As to "evidence"; if the Russians had been given knowledge of how to make penicillin during the war the Film would have made no sense. He would have been smuggling something else.
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  444. 41:25 The West may be "Oh, so deeply" committed to Ukraine, but obviously, they do not care tuppence for Ukrainian people!
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  445. 24:01 I heard that General Westmoreland asked for more oil that the world production to mount a "New, final" bombing campaign on North Vietnam and when he was told that there was not enough oil to fuel this, to be had, he gave up.
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  446. !:18:28 It occurs to me, that the only people who are interested, permanently interested in war, are the arms manufacturers and their shareholders. Therefore, to ensure peace in the World, all arms companies should be nationalized. They should have only one shareholder, the government the people. No need in fact, for complicated disarmarment negotiations, all you need is to remove the finacial motivation and the rest is relatively simple. Am I wrong?
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  447. I think the Russians want the civilian population out of the way of the fighting, iow out of harm's way. Also, whether the Russians want to advance or to retreat, the civilians will be in their way.
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  448. 15:41What should the US/Israeli side have done on 9/10/23? This reminds me of the story about the Engliman on a walking holiday in Ireland who found himself lost and asked a local the way to Dublin. "You want to go to Dublin?" queried the local. "Oh, Dear!" Really, I wouldn't started from here ! If I was you."
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  449. 14:20 A new security architecture will be a pointless exercise, so long as the "cancer" at the heart of the problem, the USG-MIC-Congress-MSM-lobbyist industry complex in Washington DC, is left intact. In my opinion, it will sabotage peace so long as it exists in its present form. Its life depends on its so doing !
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  450. What Alex does not understand is that IF ONLY the Ukrainians can break through to the other side of Robotynie, the Russians will all panic and run away in fright! Believe us! It's written in the stars!
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  451.  @jay90374  I see there is a piece in today's ukYahoo, quoting The New Voice of Ukraine to the effect that "Britain is weighing sending ground trooops to Ukraine in the event that Russia greatly escalates the war" Sounds delusional to me.
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  452. 31:00 As I see it, there is a small but powerful faction in the West that really HATES Russia and wants all day and every day to attack and destroy Russia, so that they can feast on the remains. They can't do it, because Russia is too strong, but the intention, the hope, the aspiration, is always there. Hence the constant establishment of new bases all over the World, since the end of WW2. Sometimes it is more hidden than at other times but it is a constant factor. It really makes "Negotiations", with the West pointless. What is needed is to make sure that Russia is strong enough, to keep the desires of this clique as just desires. If I conclude anything from this, it is that the Russians should buck-up their propaganda and PR efforts, The Ukrainian war is, at least in part, the result of the West's underestimating the strength of the Russians, economically, politically and militarily. PR and propaganda, is MUCH CHEAPER than war and it may well be the alternative.
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  453. 36:05 Relying on narratives does not merely not win you wars, it activly works to meke sure you are defeated.
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  454. Mr Freeman speaks of there not being much evidence of thought. We have no one among the European leaders that strikes me as being a thinker.
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  455. 18:08 Maybe Zelensky has been reading the British media and still thinks he has a chance of winning?
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  456.  @kgbgb3663  Yes, I think you are right. I mis-heard "Kavkahazia" as "Abkhazia".
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  457. 10:07 The problem is this: The Europeans have followed the USA down the rabbit hole into a severe slump, induced by cutting off Europe's supply of cheap energy from Russia and the USA is now demanding, that they contribute more to NATO, which in very fact is not and never has been, a "Defensive" alliance. (It has never come to the defenso of anyone except after 9/11 and that was a put-up job anyway.) It has always attacked other countries, that the US and Israel wanted reduced in power, no wonder they are worried. The other point to condider is that armies are always the last resort of the ruling class to keep themselves in power. That is the principal reason why countries have armies. The threats of external enemies are very largely and most of the time, excuses for having them. NATO backs up the other five or six layers of protection that the ruling classes surround themselves with, the Police, the Education system, the MSM and publishing system, the burocracy. Dismantling NATO at a time when the farmers in various NATO countries look as though they might be considering going home for their pitchforks, is an alarming idea. Particularly given the parlous state of most of the armies in the CW.
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  458. 18:03 The Russian-Chinese drive to get a ceasefire in Gaza, shows their principled stand, in that were they as ruthless as the US, they would encourage the Israelis to use up as much of the West's stock of arms as quickly as possible, for example by smuggling arms to Hamas.
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  459. Elections are not going solve anything. Whom to elect? Who is there? Hello! Is there anyone there?
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  460. 20:40 It almost seems as though the Baltic states are making the same mistake as the Kurds!
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  461. Except that the Russian export hardly any gold.
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  462. this scheme was dreamed up by Baldrick.
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  463. 22:14 They don't think of these thing because of Hubir and intellectual laziness. They are not chess players.
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  464. Sorry! Hubris
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  465.  @kunik61  Is this supposed to be some sort of argument? Or is it just name-calling?
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  466. 17:25 It really is the most extraordinary gamble that Borrel is asking Europe to make. "It looks as though Ukraine is LOSING, if we do not increase the arms we supply to Kiev, Ukraine WILL LOSE! So give them EVERYTHING YOU HAVE, on the assumption that they will then win and make all our efforts worth while!". IOW "Victory or bust!" WHOOPEE!
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  467. Looking back over the period from 1945 to the present day; it seems to me that there was a very optimistic feeling in Britain after the war and each government since has gradually whitled that away. Though I did not like her at all, i must admit that there was a sort of surge of optimism for a short while under Thatcher, which quickly, disipated under Blair and things have contued down as before. since. All that time, the Britis government has been, more or less, a puppet of the warmongers of Washington. As Kissinger said, being a friend of the USA is fatal. what we are waiting for now is the Coup de grace.
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  468. Accepting that Lizz Truss is a puppet and that Sunak is also, probably, a puppet, the question becomes : "Who is the Puppet-master?" The lack of "Leadership-Material" seems to be a problem bedeviling the whole of the collective West. What has caused it? Why has it not affected China and Russia? What is it? Food? Medicine? The water supply? Plastics? Education? Methods of selecting leaders? Any ideas?
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  469. 8:00 What the US will be doing, is to make the alternative, BRICS currency arrangements, ABSOLUTELY essential! Of course, seeing how well the sanctions on Russia have worked, to cripple the Russian economy, it is hard to see how the White House could resist the temptation to do the same to China.
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  470. If the US/Israeli side had labeled Ham*s as "a Terrorist" organization, that might have played well withthe other governments. How would it have played with the other terrorist organizations on the US payroll?
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  471.  @jazondelta4976  Nehru wrote an autobiography and in the first edition, the fly leaves, (The pages on the inside of the covers.) showed a map of India. I don't know about the second edition but in the third edition, there were very similar maps which differed only in that the "border" between India and China had moved hundreds of miles to the North! This without any negotiations in the mean time.
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  472. 21:02 It's not even their own butts they are saving, it's their own power, their own money!
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  473. 12:20 To understand US foreign policy you have to bear in mind, all the time, that the aim and object of the policy is not to make friends, it is to achieve Global Hegemony. They cannot do it by out-competing the Eurasian bloc that they have succeeded in creating, so they are determined to do it by downgrading the Eurasians, China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. By hook or by Crook! Actually, the BIGGEST OBSTACLE by far, at the moment, to their making Friends, at all, is their alliance with and support of Israel. Anyone looking at the genocide taking place there can be expected to think: "What is happening to the Palestinians Today, could just as well happen to us Tomorrow!"
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  474. The great advantage of a Trump win would be that the Democrats have a ready-made smear: "Trump is a Russian Agent! It is a well known fact! His stabbing Ukraine in the Back just proves it!" Etc., etc, ad nauseam.
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  475. Once upon a time, (At a time when China was relatively weak.) the Collective West was very keen on "Free competition" and more or less forced the Chinese to join the World Trade Organization. Many friends of China were aghast at the Chinese for doing this, thinking that it would choke off Chinese development. However, a year or two back, the Chinese sued the US for infringing the WTO's rules, in the WTO's court and the US responded by blocking the functioning of the court!
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  476. 17:38 English is not the language of ANY EU nation!
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  477.  @joellegerard148  Yes, you're right. I forgot. It's one of the many problems associated with being old.
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  478.  @joellegerard148  Thanks.
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  479.  @vadimsegida2320  Tes! One might almost think that they regard us a Goyim!
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  480.  @sw-en7wb  Yes. That one.
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  481. 1:28:02 As far as I can see; there will be no longterm security while the -lobby-congress-USG-MIC--lobby-(and round and round) system that funds, fuels and finances the warmongers, at the expense of the taxpayers, is allowed to exist. Unless the MIC is nationalised and private shareholdings in the MIC are prohibited, the warmongers will mong war into the foreseeable future. Thaat is the canker at the heart of the international situation.
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  482. 32:31 In fact, the Neocoms went to war against a "mythical" Russsian army with a "mythical" Nato war machine.
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  483. 18:55 I wonder: this "Ethnically-driven Russophobia" ; what was the ethnicity of the russophobes in question?
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  484. I have been thinking about "Writing" a book by collecting the headlines in Yahoo's daily digest of news, about Ukraine winning, Russia losing, failing, being corrupt, and China collapsing, breaking down in a civil war, attacking the USA and headlines about the USA's struggles to defend and promote Democracy! Might make interesting reading, if one could stomach it.
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  485. END Why do the Russians carry on waging the SMO? I think they are still not going all out to win, they are still being very careful of the civilian population of the Ukraine. Less so than at the start but still not using all the power they could.
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  486. 5:40 You are absolutely right about there being no alternative (TINA?)! There used, way back, to be a Communist party. Long before the USSR collapsed and stopped financing it, it split over the "Parliamentary Road to Socialism" Khruschev's "Brilliant Idea" to appease the Westerners. It split into the Moscow-followers (Revisionists) and the Beijing followers (Marxist-Leninist) factions and then (I think) MI5 got to workalso amongst the M_L groups, infiltrated the M-L part and it spilt into dozens of "parties", which rapidly faded into insignificance. Since then. we have had Tony Blair and the Uni-party of "right"- and "left-wing conservatives!" Both wings of the uniparty have been much more concerned with Wokeness, BREXIT, with supporting the USG and Israel (For fear of being called "A*ti-S*mit*c") than anything to do with the well-being of Britain.
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  487. 35:07 Could this "West German - style Ukraine" be a cunning US Plot to keep Europe down?
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  488.  @gregorylayne9044  Yeah! Happy days!
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  489. 17:00 Human Rights. Maybe if the West goes on with its HR schtick long enough, the BRICS might be provoked into hitting back with an attack on the CW's HR record?
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  490. 14:59 The Russians have been strung along by the USA and its allies at least since the collapse of the USSR. Maybe, since 1941.
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  491. 8:50 This sort of attempt to portray the Russians as making threats of using nuclear weapons goes right back to the time when the USSR first detonated a nuclear bomb. As far as I can remember, they never have! All they have ever said is "don't try to overthrow us or we might be forced to use nuclear weapons to defend ourselves." The most they can ever be accused of, is threatening retaliation for existential threats to themselves. They have never, ever said anything resembling "Look out! We are going to bomb you to smithereens unless you do such and such." Always the talk of "Russian threats" is based on twisting things said by the Russians into statements that they did not say or mean.
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  492. Insane? No. Bought. Ruling class people, almost always, feel much closer to other RC people than to their own Working Class people. Allowing in many migrants, keeps wages down. That's why "they" do it. If you you don't understand the Class Nature of society, you will never understand politics.
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  493. 17:29 The War in the ME (WME) is losing the Democratic Party a lot of Palestinian - American votes.
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  494. As a FONOPS, of course!
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  495. When the Roman Empire ran out of money it withdrew its legions back to Rome. What do you think are the chances of the US Empire, which looks as though it is going to run out of money soon, if it has not already, will do the same?
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  496.  @alansimms8023  What you write is true but does not answer the question.
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  497. 18:19 The CIA has announced that it is conducting a recruitment campaign in Russia at the moment. (I understand they are advertising for recruits on the web) Could it be that this article is not what it appears to be, but some sort of coded message? Just a thought, I don't really have anything to back the idea.
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  498. Another thing which is driving the detachment of Saudi Arabia from Dollars, is the OBVIOUS risk of holding dollars! One day you have hundreds of billions of dollars stored in the US or Europe and the next, they are "Frozen"! Also it is cheaper (Aka more profitable.) to trade in local currencies.
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  499.  @casteretpollux  Thanks.
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  500.  @casteretpollux  Thanks.
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  501. 8:07 When one looks at the politicians who are, apparently, running the West; the thing that strikes one is their mediocrity. (If that is not too flattering a term.) How does this come about? Why does it seem to afflict all the nations of the CW? I don't know this for a fact, Certainly, I have not heard it said of all of them, only a few, but I wonder if they are all addicted to cocaine? We know that some are and I read the Thames Valley Water authority complaining that the creatures which inhabit the Thames are all or mostly suffering from cocaine poisoning! Now the Thames is a fair-sized river and to achieve a concentration of cocaine to cause that problem must mean a pretty large continual consumption of it. Maybe, it is more widespread among the wealthy than is generally realised? Just a suggestion.
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  502. 29:29 "I don't think Western governments have reached that point." I don't think Western governments will ever reach that point, while they are dominated by Dual-Passport Holders. (As they are at present.)
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  503. Vide: Ursula's remarks to Netanyahoo, post 7/10/2023.
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  504. 1:15:29 Look at the ethnicity of the "European leaders". I think that will explain why they are asking Iran to "show restraint".
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  505. 1:06:14 The internet is a powerful force for Democracy, for how can you have a "Democracy" where the Demos has only one source of information? And the same source controlls the publishing industry, & the educational system ?
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  506. China has just finished building a High Speed Railway from Serbia to Hungary. From Belgrade to Budapest IIRC.
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  507. 5:54 It sounds as though the Germans may be going the same way as the British in the sense that they are becoming more and more fed up with the Uniparty! At least in Germany they have some alternatives, though.
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  508. 22:37 I should think it quite likely, that the polling was done and the result was so shocking, that tpb were afraid to publish it, for fear of encouraging people to vote for GG.
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  509. 38:54 Can anyone in their right mind trust a treaty with the US? Without a "Regime Change" in Washington, I would not bet a pinch of shit on it!
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  510. 23:15 "Not mentioning the Ukraine" ... This morning I read an article on the Western econonomy, (right through, mind,) that did not once mention BRICS!
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  511. 9:08 I am surprised that you do not mention the abiding German folk-memory, of the Hyperinfalation leading to the rise of the Man with the Mustasches and his gang!
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  512. 38:00 It would be very interesting if you could o a program with Prof. Michael Hudson.
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  513. 42:44 All the argument (such as it is) is all taking place in the Social Media. The MSM has been completely transformed, taken over, into government propaganda, with hardly a dissenting voice to be seen or heard.
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  514. 6:30 Relation between India and the US were bound to deteriorate because India wants to balance between the Eurasian side and the US side, while the US says: "If you're not with us, you're against us!"
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  515. Far worse! Churchill spoiled for war with the USSR, collaborating with the remnants of the German troops. look up "Operation Unthinkable".
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  516. 25:28 Elensky won't negotiate. It's time for the Russian partiers who came to London and Salisbury, to get out their Novichok and smear it on Elensky's door handle. Highly Likely! I would say!
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  517. If Putin was removed by whatever, coup, accident or heart attack, it would not end the Western "hostility" to Russia. I put hostility in quotes, because really it is not hostility so much as concupiscence. They want the land and above all the minerals and Putin stands in their way. Absit Putin there would be someone else.
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  518. 40:00 The Eu countries might break free of N@0, but they would certainly run the risk of having color revolutions if they did.
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  519. 2:30 This is reminiscent of the occasion when Mao prevented Chiang's own troops from killing him, even though Chiang had earlier arrested and put to death Mao's wife and his baby daughter, because they were Mao's wife and daughter. Mao did this because he thought that China needed Chiang in the fight against Japan. Another man who put his country's interests before his own feelings.
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  520. Are you going to discuss the proposal which comes up for ratification very soon, to hand over National Health Policy to the WHO (Aka Bill Gates, WEF and Big Pharma) ? Are you going to mention the scandalous failure to discuss or even document, the increase in "All Deaths" in the Vac*inated West?
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  521. 43:14 It brings a picture to my mind of the Trojan horse being allowed into Troy and proceeding to eat all the food and all the trees and grass inside the city walls.
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  522. 5:47 It would be no great surprise if some of the shells that Pavel bought, came from Kiev.
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  523. I hear that the Volksbanks are being destroyed.
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  524. 13:07 Starmer is Tony Blair mk II.
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  525. 28:15 One reason that the UK might support it: this move to support the seizure of the Russian frozen assets, would damage the reputation of the dollar and the Euro as safe places to deposit wealth and it would thus help to cover up the UK's seizure of Venezuela's gold.
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  526. 16:57 Surely the principle aim of the War in Ukraine is nothing to do with the interests of Ukraine. This is a US Proxy war with US aims, i.e. to weaken Russia, to kill Russians to get rid of Putin. At the same time Zelensky seem to not have the interests of Ukrainians at heart, either.. He seems to have the interests of Zelensky at heart. He and his team, seem to think, mostly in theatrical terms, and "making a Good Show" of the war. Neither the US nor Zelensky (Nor come to that the British governments) seem to care at all for the interests of ordinary Ukrainians! They have arranged in an, as far as I know, unprecedented way, for several generations of Ukrainian men to be wiped out.
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  527.  @YabbaDabba-mi5ub  What should be called "uniparty"?
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  528. It will need one hell of a crisis and the destruction of the power of the MSM, before anyone as clever and knowledgeable as they, gets anywhere near No.10.
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  529. 22:58 Maybe he could go to a villa in Turkye?
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  530. 15 :58 Didn'some French monarch say when told that his subjects hated
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  531.  @CycOp  You think war with China is a good idea?
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  532. 1:38:07 What Alexander is missing, (Perhaps he does not want to admit it.) is that since, probably the Revolution, certainly since the start of the Manhattan Project, the Deep State in the USA has had as its ultimate goal, the destruction of the Soviet/Russian state and bringing under US control, the vast resources of Russia and eventually the Whole world. This has underlain their continual efforts to surround, initially Russia and now China. Only if you admit this and understand this, can you make sense of all their policies. Without this, none of it makes sense.
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  533. I think that the "Traditional Left" parties (Labour ,Communist and Maoist) have all been infiltrated, subverted and broken by internal strife, by the Special Branch and MI6, in Britain and probably the same or analogous thing has happened in Europe. They have also been relentlessly attacked by the MSM as soon as they showed any patriotic, anti-EU or anti-US or anti-Israel tendency. The Woke cult has also had a deleterious and confusing effect.
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  534. I bet he is also a Zionist.
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  535. 18:12 There is also the point that doing as Alexander is suggesting is MUCH CHEAPER! You may need all the drones etc that you have!
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  536. Lenin said that if you scratch a Social Democrat you'll find a Fasc*st. To me, it seems he was right.
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  537. @timjrgebn If anyone did they would probably be attacked by the MSM as either Anti-S*mitic or pro-H*mas. Or possibly both!
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  538. 26:48 Maybe the "weak link" in their situation, if Britain is anything to go by, is immigration. That situation can get a lot worse, very suddenly.
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  539. 13:00 The Telegraph today has an article that is boasting about the amount of damage the Ukrainian saboteurs are doing inside Russia.
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  540. 9:00-9:07 That is the first time I can remember hearing Alexander say something silly. "You can go on strike; but how does that help you? Increase in wages that you extract that way, is going to be eaten up by inflation very fast and inflation in Britain is much higher than government figures say and when the price-caps on household bills...." So : what are you saying? That it is better not to strike but just to watch you wages dwindle away? Or are you saying : "Striking never solved anything! It's just a stop-gap measure. Better get yourself a trusty pitchfork, get your mates to do the same and go to Westminster to talk to the B*ggers responsible for this mess. Oh, and bye-the-way, best take some stout cord with you while you're at it!" Or what?
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  541.  @conservativemike3768  Yes, A global phenomenon driven by the BIS and other big banks. It is the tendency of Capitalist economies to turn into monopolistic economies. It is, so to say, built into capitalism.
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  542. 12:35 The problem, as I see it is not that Britain "tried to punch above its weight" so much as that after 1941, Britain became an appendage of the US Deep State. (And as seems to happen to US "Allies", is now treated like a used condom.) Well, at least it should put an end to the Imperial ambitions of the likes of Lizzy T and Ben Wallace! It has just occurred to me that perhaps the constant refrain of "Putin wants to restore the borders of the USSR" could be a projection of the desire to restore the borders of the British Empire? Just a thought.
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  543. 22:53 To my untutored mind, if the, say, French troops are handling military material and theRussians attack the arms dump in which they happen to be working then that does not sound like a war crime to me. If they are working in a war zone and they get killed, welll, isn't that a voluntary misfortune?
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  544. !:34:38 When one learms about "science" and the "Scientific Method"; one learns that, in scientific work, one first observes and tries to draw conclusions to explain the thing observed. The explanation is called a hypothesis. One then devises experiments to test the conclusions, to test the hypothesis. One then observes the results of the experiments and either they confirm the hypothesis or they don't. If they do, one devises other experiments to test the hypothesis further. If they don't, one make a new hypothese to explain all the results and then test the new hypothesis and so on until you feel satisfied that you understand whatever it is you are studying. At that point your hypothesis, is dignified with the appelation of a theory. All the time, you have to keep in mind that you may be overlooking something important and that all conclusions are subject to revision, when newly discovered facts do not fit the theory. (I.e. "It ain't neccessarily so!") Now, in the West, most politicians are not scientists nor are they scientifically trained. This is shown up, by such episodes as the recent spate of sanctions on Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela and many others.
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  545. 29:47 It sounds as though the next Wunderwaffen will be the F-35.
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  546. I nominate Lizz Truss. Failing her, how about Theresa May?
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  547.  @MarkHockridge-qd2fb  Probably. I don't know much about the Tory MPs, I have not studied them. Probably you are right. On the few occasions I have met a Tory MP I have found them pretty stupid, but I have met only two or three to talk with personally.
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  548.  @MarkHockridge-qd2fb  What we have is a sham democracy. Vote for whom you like it will make a marginal difference. The rhetoric will change, a lot, the policies will change but a little. This is not surprising, because the policies are not made in London, but in Washington DC. Not by the elected US government, but by the permanent US State Apparatus. It has been like this since, at least, 1945. These policies do not benefit Britain but the big businesses of the USA. Hence the steady decline of the UK.
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  549. 1:04:34 I can tell you that I have been reading about the imminent collapse of the Chinese economy since 1950.
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  550. 30:50 The UK left-wing parties were infiltrated by Specil Branch and, probably, MI5. They came in as "Super militant" members and turned a lot of people off. Others were induced by them to do silly things and landed in jail. Still others got people who had leadership aspirations, to split their organisations into ever smaller parties, (With themselves as Leader.) until these parties became unviably small and disappeared. I think the UK authorities also had help and advice on how to break up and downgrade leftwing organizations, from the CIA and the Israeli Embassy.
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  551. 23:10 Western Micawberism!
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  552. 22:55 Defeat Russia and you have a free World." & China?
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  553. Could one call the "leaders" of Europe "anoitocrats"?
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  554. 12:54 Biafra. Breakaway, Oil-rich province. Hmmm. I should think, looking back on it, that though I had never, at that time, heard of "color revolutions", that that was a relatively early example.
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  555. Asalex has often pointed out Hunter B. is the ultimate Renaissance Man (As well as James Bond mk2!)
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  556. At the moment the driving force, destroying peace, seems to be the US obsession with maintaining a position of Global Hegemon.
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  557. In the mean time (& Boy! Is it a mean time!) Venezuela should get Prof Michael Hudson to advise it on Economic policy, should get the Chinese and the Cubans to send advisors to help with diversifying and expanding its agricultural production, should get Russian advisors to help with its gold production and its Army. It might also help to get the CPC to send some advisors to help reform and streamline the Burocracy.
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  558. 16:17 It's not just Merkel that is not there. The cheap, reliable Russian gas is not there either.
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  559. 35:31 It is all very well to criticize the CPC, but "by their fruit shall ye know them". What other government has done as much to improve the life of their countrymen as has the Chinese? What other government has set itself the goal of abolishing poverty and largely succeeded? None, that I can think of. As to Russia, China and Iran wanting war, if they did there is unlikely to be a better time for them to go to war than now. The Russians have shown that the US and its allies cannot produce ammunition fast enough to defeat the Russians (alone) in a conventional war and even the US understands that no one wins a nuclear war.
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  560.  @kateoneal4215  Thanks. will do. Not sure who he is, but one of the "reasonable" commentators has such a boring voice that I can hardly stay awake!
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  561. 25:40 It seems even more alarming that you have stated because it looks as though it would be possible to sneak atomic weapons into critical parts of Russia without too much difficulty!
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  562.  @desmondho9567  Join the club!
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  563. 1:08:14 "The market place of ideas" iow, the MSM is owned by six gigantic corporations, who, being capitalist entities are in it for profit. So, since they are effectively under the control of the deep state it is no surprise that the visible part of the discussion is heavily biased in favour of the DS point of view. The only part of the discussion that is relatively free, is in the internet and even here it is cencored, as Alexander points out in almost every video.
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  564. 19:08 Presumably, some of the money that Congress will vote to Project Ukraine will go to pay civil service salaries and to pay soldiers. Won't it? Surely, Elensky & Co. will be able to cream some of that off.
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  565. These are "crazy" plans all right, but they are persistent, Governments change, but the new governments accept the same "Crazy" plans. I think you have to follow the command structure and the old adage: CUI BONO? If this is a Younohuish revenge on the Russian/the Christians (?) for being thrown out of Khazaria,1200 years ago, however absurd that idea sounds, it would explain the consistency. I mean, this is not new, it goes way back to the 19th Century at least. The excuses for the unremitting hostility vary, Russian imperialism, Communism, being "too large", not having the "Right Values" and so on but the hostility is constant. Look at the ethnicity of thr Hostiles, they are mostly of one type and or married to a spouse of that same ethnicity.
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  566. To some extent the technological development of the World will, I think, inevitably favour the breakdown of borders. Just as the difference in the way the Welsh the Scots and the Irish speak more standardized English as the result of Television since 1946 and the internet has facilitated the spread of ideas and friendships across the globe, so I think the spread of high-speed railways across EurAsia and Africa will, over time, also have a similar effect. Another phenomenon that is aiding the integration of people all across the globe is the way that English (Or American.) has become a lingua franca.
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  567. 7:30 Everybody who is anybody will love it! Nobody who is somebody will be agaist it !
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  568. 26:00 "Muddling through" is an old English tradition.
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  569. Glen, your sound is badly distorted. Sometimes it affects just one of you, sometimes none of you sometimes, all of you.
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  570.  @lollypop2413  I don't know what it is a sign of! Even making the things should be a war crime. Using it is homicidal mania. It betrays a lack of concern for the future of humanity.
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  571. 4:31 I agree that JT does not do these things on his own initiative. This looks to me like part of "You are either for us or against us". India is a founding member of BRICS, so how can they be "for us"?
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  572. 11:35 Can you imagine the fuss that the Collective West would have made, if Russia had caused al the disruptions in trade and trading relationships, that have been caused by the 12 packages of sanctions, that have been imposed by the West?
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  573. 5:57 A good place to strart is the government's list of "Unreliable sites", I am not joking. True, a lot of them really are unreliable, some are plainly deranged, but amongst all the chaff there is wheat to be had, if you have the patience to look for it. Looking at the web, I find there are now dozens of such lists to choose from! When I collected my copy of the list in 16/08/20 there was only one!
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  574. It's amazing to hear Iain Duncan Smith, who heartlessly slaughtered his own people, en masse, as Minister for Work and Pensions (or whatever his exact title was) waxing so sympathetic over Ukrainian soldiers! What happened to him? A come-to-Jesus moment? Or just hypocrisy?
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  575. 22:34 Yes I think Alexander has it correctly. His is a very likely explanation of the CW's elites' behaviour They are not only incompetent and arrogant, but perhaps (it seems likely to me) that they have been reading too much of their own propaganda and subconsciously absorbing its message. There is also the phenomenon called "confirmation bias"; they read their own rubbish and sort of believe it and then they read more of it and think something like: "Well every report is saying the same thing", and as it is what they want to believe it, they go on to think: "so it must be true!" It's something like "hoist with their own petard"!
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  576. You might as well ask how does a horsey socialite like Ursula become "President" of Europe? Did anyone vote for her? I, sure as Hell, didn't!
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  577. 31:02 Is it not true that before the Revolution of 1917, Abkhazia and South Ossetia were not part of Georgia and were bundled into Georgia by Stalin?
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  578.  @deborahdean8867  LMAO<ROFL!
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  579. 28:47 Even American troops need weapons.
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  580. 34:30 there is an "Epidemic" of really feeble leaders in Europe as a whole. It's not just Germany, it's all over. Could they all have been selected by Klaus Swab? Or by the CIA for their pliability and lack of get-up-and-go? It certainly looks suspicious!
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  581. 16:06 I thought , listening to Sunak's speech, that he was identifying the "far Right" with Hamas, because one of the things that the political class tries to blacken GG with, is that he is "Pro-Hamas".
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  582. 28:18 It seems to be a characteristic of reactionaries that they undervalue humans, generalship, industrial strength and morale and overvalue and have great expectations of Wonderweapons. (Wunderwaffen). They have always been disappointed. The technological difference between the two sides has to be as great as that between the Europeans and the Natives of North America or between the Spanish and the Aztecs, for weapons to make that sort of difference. Even the difference between the US and the Vietnamese or between the US and the Afghans was not enough to make the difference, never mind the technological difference between the NA*Is and the Allies. The V1 and the V2 were really both flops and one could argue that the A-bomb has been a disappointment too.
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  583. Yeah! Trump "talks the talk" and I think that usually he means well, but in office he surrounded himself with a collection of evil people like Bolton and Pompous Maximus and when he gave good orders, such as "Get out of Syria!" the Military ignored him and nobody's head rolled.
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  584. 20:21 The basic fallacy that a large majority of people are fooled by, is the title of "Newspapers" or "Newsbroadcasts" In fact, there is no pressure on these organizations, to transmit "News" (I.e. facts and stories about what is really happening) at all. There is no penalty levied against these organizations for spreading lies, misinformation or suppressing stories. Quite the contrary! They and the Big Tech chanels that run the social media, are penalised or threatened with penalties, for spreading the truth about things that the governments do not want discussed. Their chief function is to spread government propaganda and to make themselves look credible, the information they contain about sport, royal children and personalities and weather is nearly all accurate.
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  585.  @bitsbobs8613  "Good reason"? Must be some new definition of "good" of which I was hitherto unaware!
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  586. 22:38 Apparently the US is sanctioning Chinese Banks that deal with Iran. Any comment?
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  587.  @UFO_computers  Isn't it always going on?
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  588. 31:20 Elensky, NATO & All the Rest, are mot going to get what they say they want. In the end they will look more stupid than the SMO term looks. IMHO the Russians say what they think they are doing and if anyone does not like their terminology, too bad, they can lump it.
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  589.  @basook6116  Big wins indeed! To my mind all the tu*ds running the western toilet have been bought by Uncle and run it for his benefit. Otherwise, nothing they do makes sense.
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  590. 6:00 Don't forget Venezuela!
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  591.  @ia1530  Dose chickens, ain't got nutin' to do wiv it! Destruction of Nordstream was not done by Africans.
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  592.  @magis3775  Failure ? Like that in China? Compare China 1949 and China today and tell me about failure.
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  593.  @harryflashman4542  It doesn't matter who votes, it's who counts the votes that matters!
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  594.  @peterrinas3862  Germany ran on Cheap Energy. It was not "Left Wing Policies", but NATO wars that caused the floods of refugees. Nor was it the Left Wing that decided it was a GOOD IDEA to blow up the Nordstream pipelines.
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  595. 3:09 relates to this comment.
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  596. 13:16 My bet would be that we shall see the CW going after all the members of BRICS (Except oc Russian and China.) to persuade them to break away and join the CW.
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  597.  @adamgates1142  Too right! "Handsome is as handsome does."
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  598.  @williamcordasco945  You may well be right.
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  599.  @heimomoilanen9654  I am inclined to forgive Trump quite a lot in his 1st term as I think he was "all at sea" and surrounded with criminal idiots like John Bolton and Pompeo. I have a faint hope that his 2nd term will be better.
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  600. 25:34 "If you apply logic to this" you will be wasting your time, because the American public is not well versed in logic. Apparently it is largely driven by greed and other emotions. Logic comes well down on the tests that they apply to what they hear.
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  601. Germany has been occupied since 1945. During the Cold War, the US wanted Germany to make armaments to help fight the Russians. More recently Germany, like Japan, has been seen as a competitor that has to be cut off at the knees and that is what is being done. Scholz and Co. are traitors who are helping this process along.
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  602. 12:16 No! Of course there is not one leader in the CW to tell them that this is self-destructive stupidity, because these so-called leaders, have one job and on job only, and that is to tell the WoWs that they are right!
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  603. I hope they did not all travel together.
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  604. 19:58 The behaviour of the Western governments towards Ukraine, tells anyone that cares to look, exactly what sort of people they are! Decent, caring, Human Beings they are not! It also shows us in the West, how much sympathy we can expect from them, ourselves.
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  605. 12:13 It sounds as though, a characteristic of the neocons, is that they see the world through distorting filters. Something like rose-tinted spectacles but giving a distorted vision of the World, where they can behave as brutally as they like and no one will object, because they are the"Exeptional" ones, who are beyond reproach and are always going to be victorious.
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  606. 17:30 It is interesting that you say there was a hope in the last days of NAZI Germany that the allies would fall out with each other. I wonder if they had wind of, or perhaps direct knowledge of Winston Churchill's "Operation Unthinkable"? And/or General Groves's plans to attack the USSR with atomic bombs?
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  607.  @betseyhemmelgarn1230  It's more than just Oil, it is that THEY WON'T BOW DOWN AND DO AS WE TELL THEM!!
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  608. 58: 47 It seems to me that the only solution to the problem of the MIC is to nationalise it. Off topic: but the same is true of the Pharmaceutical industry. Make private ownership of shares in either, illegal.
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  609. Ursula van der Crazy meets Charles the tird?
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  610.  @JustineBrownsBookshelf  Actually, we do. A lot of peoplethink the Monarch is powerless, but that is a carefully fostered illusion.
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  611.  @JustineBrownsBookshelf  Tell Gough Whitlam (Australian PM 1972-1975) that the Monarch has no political power.
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  612. 6:00 The rest of the Collective West are absolutely the same as France in this regard. They all follow Washington's lead on such matters.
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  613. There is also the danger that seems to have been hardly considered of what goods China might refuse to sell to the CW. I remember, for example, reading many years ago (As far as I know it is still true.) that 90% of the World's known Tungsten reseves are in North Korea and 9% are in China.
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  614. Probably because the Palestinians are a much smaller and weaker group than the Russians. A lot of the World, probably, takes the view that the Russians can take care of themseves, without their support.
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  615. 21:35 "That worked then and. . . " it led on to 911, the war on Afghanistan, the war on Iraq, the proxy war on Syria, the continuing war on dissent in the US and the erosion of all sorts of civil rights in the US and its Anglo-Saxon and European satraps. Not good. Nixon and Kissinger did nothing at all to curb the Neocons. Nothing at all to give the ordinary American a better life. They instituted the Petrodollar system, which must rank as one of the most gigantic swindles in human history. I don't know to what extent the US interfered in the British electoral system but if they were to blame for Thatcher, I would not be surprised!
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  616. Oh yes! Don't forget either, that between their "minor" wars in the middle East an North Africa and the depredations of the World Bank and the IMF, they unleashed the flood of refugees on both Europe and the USA itself, that continues to this day.
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  617. 12:35 How do you think the British and French solldiers, who are potentially being sent to their deaths, (For nothing!) are going to react to this idea?
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  618. 9:55 I wish I was as optimistic as Alexander! I am afraid there are still huge numbers of people in the collective West who still believe that "Ukraine is winning the War" and who think that the war was "unjustly, unreasonably forced on Ukraine by a whim of the Dictator Putin"! Rather than that the war was deliberately forced on Russia by the Collective West
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  619. 20:18 How about a number of Chinese Tourists? I'm told they spend very much more than Western tourists.
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  620. Just a short time ago, NA*O was the"Greatest, the most powerful military machine, that the World has ever seen, In short: NA*O could not be defeated". Now the Russian have defeated it. (Or very soon will.) Now, the only force which could credibly take on Russia is China and that is not on the cards!
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  621. How do they make us forget history? Easy! Feed people on star-spangled scandals and pictures of Royal babies, "Aaah ain't that sweet!", Royal divorces and Alien encounters.
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  622. 16:04 Yes! Remember how the US protected N*ZI scientists and othe prominet figures with "Operation Paperclip" and the utterly vile Japanese experimenters on Germ-warfare, in "Unit 731" after WW2.
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  623. 10:00 If the US goes on supplying weapons to Israel, they will, presumably, be accomplices in Genocide. Won't they?
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  624. 1:47:52 The one thing above all (It is not the only thing but it is the worst.) that prevents any breaking of the grip of the MICC on the foreign policy of the US, is making lobbying and the "Revolving Door", legal. With that legislation in place, I do not see how anything can be done about it by the US itself.
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  625. 24:19 Do you think it is possible that the MSM were in on the planning for this terrorist incursion into Russiia and were expecting to be able to help panic the Russian populace? The MSM, after all, are the propaganda arm of the Collective West. The "journalists" all get their writing orders from the Integrity Initiative, daily.
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  626. 17:16 Do you, Alexander, happen to know whether the plan for "Operation Unthinkable" was leaked to the Germans before the end of WW2?
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  627.  @des_smith7658  I wonder how many countries were represented?
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  628.  @Steinstra-vj7wl  Are you saying that Netanyahoo WANTS Palestinians in Israel?
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  629.  @bzn2sfo  You could have fooled me!
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  630.  @nigelmaund9057  Thank you!
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  631.  @gingerfox7143  Significance?
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  632.  @andrear6094  Thanks.
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  633.  @richardanson2445  Another who does not read and understand before "replying". I did not mention the population of Israel what I wrote was:" "What Netanyahoo wants" . This has nothing to do with the composition of the Knesset.
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  634.  @gingerfox7143  God?
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  635. 27:36 One of the problems with the F-16s as with most US jet planes, is that the engines are very close to the ground and are unprotected from things that might get sucked into them. Consequently the US's airfields are kept scrupulously dlean and free of small stones which could be sucked into the engines and would destroy them, if they were. Russian 'planes do not suffer from the same problem, they are built to filter out such stones whilst they are on the gound.
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  636. 15:50 Why do Europe's leaders seem so feeble? What do you think of the possibility that they appear in Epstein's little book?
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  637. 18:14 I don't think it is a policeman's way of thinking. I think it is a bully's way of thinking or a gangster's way. Incidentally, I wonder has Farage tried the foreign banks in London, would that be possible? Can bitcoin help him?
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  638. 12:49 It is even worse than you say, because even were it possible for the West to suooly enough weapons to Ukraine to enable them to defeat the Russins; There would still be the Chinese who are not yet engaged, nut certainly would be were the Russians to be defeated!
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  639. 11:45 Is it not the case that the Labour Party and the Conservative party are both parts of the Uni Party? I.e. all of them (Lab, Con, Dem & REP.) closely aligned with the PTB in Washington?
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  640. 14:00 Could Orban claim that this is a declaration of war?
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  641. 1:05:00 Personally, I feel that logically, the defeat in Ukraine ought to lead to the winding up of NATO. After all, Nato was sold to the participating countries, as being this great, invincible, Military machine, "The greatest Military Machine the World has ever seen" (No less!), which no mere Russia would ever dare to attack, That, which if anyone did dare to attack any member, all would pile in to defend the victim, et hic genus omne. Having de-militarized NATO and the US, I would hope that the Russians would insist on something, more like what they were talking about in Gecember 2021.
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  642. 25:30 "Endless war in Ukraine" is what the Neocons would like, but it looks as though they cannot sustain it at its present level. I suppose that they could try to wage a sort of terrorist war a la Syria, but I doubt they could keep it going for long. They tried it in Chechnya but it was defeated, They tried something of the sort in Xinjiang, but that seems to have been defeated too. What interest me is : if they go on too long and really run out of weapons - What then !!??
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  643. 26:11 I read a headline this morning (From Deepinmoments) that said a mob in a German city had attacked the US Consulate.
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  644. 15:05 Why do these American officials travel around the world looking for the "Magic Sanction" which when implemented will bring down the Russian economy? Well, ask yourself: if you were offered the chance to travel the world in modified luxury at the USG's expense, on a potentially never-ending quest. Would you turn it down?
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  645.  @garygraham8373  Yup! The Chinese and the Russians do not stand shoulder to shoulder. No. They stand back to back. If either of them lost to an American attack the other would know that they would be next.
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  646. 36:10 I remember a year or two back, an American "Statesman" (I forget his name.) saying approvingly of an aircraft carrier that had been sent to threaten somewhere, that it was "100,000 tons of diplomacy", (!)
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  647. 9:10 The most ludicrous accusation levelled at GG by the reporter in this picture was that his election was "a threat to Democracy!"
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  648. The picture is at 8:49.
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  649. 27:46 A possible explanation of the western ruling elites' obssessiom with capturing land and indifference to casualties. They are nearly all big land-owners or come from land-owning families!
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  650.  @derekwood91  One can see that the Labour Party has sat so long on the fence, that the iron has entered their soul.
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  651. 12:01 There would be also this difference, that the US currently relies on China for a lot of raw materials and semi-finished goods. I have read that 90% of the World's reserves of tungsten are in North Korea and 90% of the rest are in China. An arms race where one side has a shortage of tungsten is hard to imagine. Nearly all large electrical power transformers are made in China. And so on down the list. On a different topic, one of the effects of the flood of imports to Western Europe of Chinese goods is that DIY became suddenly much cheaper. For example a basic electric hand drill. went from around £50 to £13, Whereas a pair of Vernier calipers to read to the nearest 0.05mms or 0.005" would cost you £30 - £40 you could suddenly buy a digital caliper that would read to 0.01mm or 0,001" for around £12. I wonder if the Russians are going to experience the same change?
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  652. 10:13 The Chinese noted their first Covid-19 death in several months. I think their rationale is that economic problems can be tolerated but the dead cannot be brought back to life.
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  653. 13:42 I think that the Administration know what it has to do, but is scared to go agains AIPAC, because that is such an overwhelmingly powerful entitiy in the US. Anyone or anything that goes against it, has no political future at all. Much the same is true in the UK. Vide Jeremy Corbyn. AIPAC is backed 100% by the MSM.
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  654. I notice that again today "someone" has unsubcribed me from this channel overnight!.
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  655. What is Sunak's attitude to Russia?
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  656. 16:38 Do you suppose that were these British soldiers or even US soldiers (and there were no election to consider) they would show any more humanity towards them? I don't.
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  657. 26:42 Patrick Lancaster speaking on the Duran yesterday said IINM that the attack on Donetsk city, a day or two ago, was done with attacams, They hit a library and a kindergarten(?).
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  658. 35:51 I am not sure but I think this "excess of deaths over normal" is not confined to the UK. Personally, I think it is caused by the vaccinations with Pfizer vaccines (See internet for results of forcing Pfizer to disclose results of clinical trials, which they wanted to keep secret for 55 years!)
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  659. 21:20 Why does the American general allow what are essentially terrorist attacks , particularly when Ukraine is short of ammo? I think it is merely confirmation of the Gangster-nature of the USG. This is what they do. This is what they did in Iraq, in Syria, in Afghanistan and what they trained the Ukrainians to do befor Feb.2022. This is their MO.
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  660. 32:00 "Pro-Putin forces in Congress". "Communists in the State Department." It worked a treat for Senator McArthy, it should work again!
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  661. 24:30 Gary Powers and the U2?.
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  662. 1:10:41 Yeah! And who would you say is behind the Irano-phobia and the Russo-phobia? Seems to me, to be the same tribe in both cases.
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  663.  @junctionfilms6348  It is very easy to say things like : "Albeit interesting, all Duran are often doing, is going over and over what we all know - it is fcuk'd - instead of being flabbergasted and throwing hands in the air about it - it would be most positive to find people talking about totally new ideas." It is very hard to put such ideas into operation! Unless you are some sort of Putschist, don't underestimate the importance of educating large numbers of people to enable them to see what is really going on. In my view the Duran is doing a very good job in that respect. No political movement in Britain (Or anywhere in the West.) is going to make a real, permanent difference without a lot of popular support. That requires at least a largish minority to distrust what they read/hear/see in the MSM. As of this video the Duran has 311K subscribers, which is a good start. If you have some better way forward, perhaps you can follow it or share it with the rest of us?
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  664.  @junctionfilms6348  "It does get alarming to see people be knowledgeable and swing a cigar on the internet and basically point out all that is wrong with the world - but offer nothing or suggestions of how to fix it." "From each according to his ability" Pointing out what is wrong with the present set-up is part of the job. An important part of the job. Agreed it isn't enough to change things, it won't, but making enough people aware of the failings of the present system is a necessary condition for change to occur. If you yourself can't come up with a way of making changes to occur, don't knock other people for not making suggestions of how to bring about the necessary changes.
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  665. P.s. If you want to see what a state with a really small government was like, read the "Icelandic Sagas". There was a very good translation published three or four years back.
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  666. Maybe there are a few people in Washington, London, Brussels and Warsaw who would just LOVE to start WW3, using any excuse! The SMO in Ukraine, has shown, beyond doubt, that NATO is a) unwilling to meet the Russians on the battlefield and b) unable to produce the necessary volume of arms to defeat them if they ever did get to fight them. Mao was right! "All reactionaries are Paper Tigers!" NATO is, in my view, hamstrung by the MIC which is intent on making, not usable, robust weapons, which can stand up to battlefield conditions, but weapons which look impressive, sound impressive, and make a lot of money for the MIC (and never mind the performance! In any case, they are not supposed to be USED!).
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  667. 57:33 The "Hegemon" does not want strong countries, not even as allies. "Top Dogs" do not cheerfully share a kennel! On the one hand they cannot stand the thought of either Russia or China being strong, nor can they avoid deriving them together by being horrible to both!
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  668. Intentional? Whose intention?
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  669. 34:45 Paranoia? "The CPC wamts war?" Who says? The US warmongers and the tame MSM. The Chinese communists understand that you cannot safely appease the US Deep state. If you try, they just dare to go further. When they threatened Mao with nuclear weapons, when China had none, he simply replied "All reactionaries are paper tigers" and got one with governing China. They did not use their nukes because they did not dare. He understood that.
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  670. The last time I was in Chisinau, (just before the pandemic) I was alarmed to see many posters in the streets all saying "FOR FREE, IMPARTIAL, EXPERT ADVICE, COME TO THE EMBASSY OF THE USA".
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  671. BTW these posters were in English.
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  672. 19:40 What came over the Israeli officials, when they said the things they did? They have an ideaology that is essentially the same as that of the one with the moustaches in WW2 Germany. The Truth slipped out, as it sometimes does.
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  673. 11:08 "It was very difficult for them to sort themselves out" Yes it was! Particularly as those that wanted to prevent them from sorting themselves out, included the CIA, who funded all sorts of terrorist groups to disrupt their development and drive towards independence. It is no surprise that the Ex-colonial powers are angry and upset at these developments, because for centuries they have been looting Africa and reducing them to abject poverty and extracting enormous wealth for themselves in the process. Look, for example at the Oil Companies and Nigeria! They have not just looted, but have done so in an incredibly damaging way for the environment.
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  674. What this scandal shows is that beyond all possible doubt, the German Government, and by extension, all the other Western governments are run by TRAITORS! There can be no milder word for governments which so act against the interests of the countries they are supposed to protect. How they are going to weasel out of this situation, I don't know, but I fear they will, at least in the short term. However, I think this episode will act like an infection that will fester away underneath them and will speed up their inevitable eventual downfall. It cannot happen too soon. Congratulations on laying this story out so plainly and on your courage in doing so in these dangerous times.
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  675. 15:56 The reason the sanctions have failed is because they were not designed by experts but by arrogant fools, who thought they knew far more than they did in fact know. It is the same reason that the war against Russia that they so enthusiastically provoked, failed. They designed NATO's military response on the basis of arrogant and deficient assumptions and it failed accordingly.
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  676. What has to be understood is that Hamas is NOT a friend of the Palestinians but a total fraud. It was set up to sabotage the Palestinian struggle, by Israel and the US, in exactly the same way as IS, ISIS, Al Qaida, and the Taliban. In other words its job is to blacken the name of the Palestinians, to make sympathy for Israel and to undermine support for the PLO and Fatah which are both secular.
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  677.  @song4night  The war in Ukraine may be unfinished but I think that Putin probably feels that he can safely leave it the hands of his generals. As to Putin mediating Peace in Israel: I feel grave doubt that anybody can do that. It seems to me that the Israelis are insatiable. OTOH, maybe, after NATO is defeated, (which looks probable) the US "Umbrella" will have been folded and the Israelis will settle for what they have and stop trying to nibble away at their neighbours' territory? Without such a change of policy, I cannot see peace any time soon. If you really want to understand what is happening in Gaza, go to Brian Berletic's "US Running Low on Weapons as Proxy Wars Target Russia, Iran, & China". It is a real eye-opener!
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  678. 9:26 I notice that Today you're wearing a microphone a few inches from your mouth. I am relieved by that, because recently (When you wore no visible mike.) I have had to listen very hard and I thought that, maybe, my hearing was failing. Today, I can hear you as easily as ever.
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  679. To understand the apparently idiotic measures imposed by the Europeans and the USG you have to look at who benefits. Clearly the US industry benefits by the elimination of German competition. Other than that it looks like a revenge by the Unohus on Russia for slinging them out 1300 years ago.
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  680. 15:45 So far as I can remember, N@0 has never done anything to sort out Intra-European squabbles, e.g British French disputes or British Icelandic disputes, but has worked merely as a sales adjunct for the MIC and as a foreign Legion for the US. As to contributing to "Stability in Europe"? Like what? Any Intra-European squables that happen, I would imagine, can be sorted out by diplomats and negotiations.
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  681. 19:20 There is nothing like democracy and what we have in the west at the moment is nothing like a democracy!
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  682. The "Blocade of Berlin" was a fiction. It was manufactured by the West. To replace the Reichsmark, without notice, they introduced a new currency, the Deutschmark, which the Russians had no control over. The Russians had to keep control of their currency or the west would have wrecked their economy. The "Berlin Airlift" was equally unnecessary, as the Russians offered to sell West Berlin all the food it needed. However, for the propaganda vallue of it, the West spent God alone knows how much money flying it in instead.
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  683. As to whether the relationship with the Chinese is better than the relationship with the US. Which would you rather have : the US's help with "fighting" Al Qaida or a railway, a hospital, an airport, a highway.... Would you rather have an IMF loan with attached Austerity and 72 gendered bathrooms or a Chinese loan to build some infrastructure? The choice is theirs, if they can get the CW off their backs.
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  684. 17:11 Maybe Zelensky could do a Tony Blaire and become a consultant to governments around the World? How to make Lots of money, you know?
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  685. 37:12 This arrangement of the loan and the guarantees and the legality of the "Arrangement" is clearly legal under the Rules Bases International Order. I don't see how there can be any question about it!
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  686. Seven is a lucky number!
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  687. What you ask is in it for Porky? Well, suppose there might be a vote of "No Confidence" in Snooky, then maybe Porky, (sorry!) Lord Porky might become PM, again?
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  688. 5:39 This breaking free by Niger is , indirectly, a result of the weakening of the CW by its defeat in Ukraine.
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  689. 15:57 Maybe (and who could blame them if it is so?) the Israeli's legal teams' hearts are not in the job.
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  690. 28:18 That's also what the Afghan government wanted!
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  691. 33:53 I think this "moral Compass" got lost a long time ago. Probably shortly after the WW2 ended. The fostering of NA*I judges and policemenin West Germany, the Operation Paperclip and the adoption of Unit 731 and shipping it to the US. The adoption of the Gehlen Organization and letting it harras the USSR with terrorist attacks and sabotage. The using of Greek collaborators and NA*I troops to fight the Greeks who had fought the NA*Is throughout the occupation and the absolutely vile treatment of German POWs in Germany. From there it has continued with one horror after another ever since. I could mention many more, but I am sure you know what I am talking about.
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  692. 34:22 I can hardly believe that Prof Meaersheimer does not realise that the whole purpose of the War in Ukraine was simply to cause the callapse of the Russian government and all that was intended to follow that.
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  693. If there were such a party, the Special Branch and MI6 would do their utmost to subvert it and the MSM would dump on it twenty times a day.
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  694. 12:15 Could an AfD government turn things around?
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  695.  @bassmanjr100  I'll leave your comment to speak for itself and you!
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  696. The nub of the problem is that the working people, the Working classes of the Western World, (of the "Collective West" if you like) are being exploited and oppressed by the Ruling Class and most of them have no understanding that they,( we) are in a CLASS WAR! Until they understand that THE PROBLEM is not Boris or Olaf or Ursula or any particular policy, but a flat-out class war, in which the ruling class does not care if common people die, there is no hope of a regime change that will make any great difference. In other words there is no way of reforming the governance of the Western World BECAUSE the governing (Ruling) class is quite happy with the way things are shaping up. Most working people have no understanding either of just hoe savage,ruthless and barbaric the members of the Ruling Class are!
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  697. 48:39 Wrong word! Not stupid, corrupt.
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  698. 16:30 Reuters is owned by the Rothschild family.
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  699.  @messire9837  What is a WON? Please define.
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  700.  @sylviam6535  What the lack of preparedness for the Pandemic showed, was that the story that we "had to do reseach into lethal pathogens SO THAT WE WOULD BE PREPARED AND READY FOR THEM WHEN THEY STRUCK" was a pack of ,ahem, fairy stories to cover up bioweapons reseach. Of course you are right, that any JITW in such preparations, if they really took place, would be completely inappropriate.
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  701. 15:42 As against what you are saying about the stability of the dyfunctionality of the EU ; The external environment is changing so rapidly, e.g. the huge US debt, de-dollarization, the Ukraine War, the growth and development of BRICS, the War in the ME, the possibility of a Trump re-election, that I think ANY predictions about the future, positive or negative, are all moot. ;
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  702. 21:26 Just to put the cherry on top of this situation, I read that Janet Yellen and the Commerce Secretary are going to Beijing to ask the Chinese for help with their economic problems (!) in particular, with difficulty in selling US Treasury Debt. Boy! Imagine being one of those two!
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  703. Biden and his family and his friends are, in a way a sort of metastasis from the central cancer.
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  704. 17:54 Things will not be much better for the ICC if they do NOT issue arrest warrants for Netanyahoo & Co.! After having Genoc*de on TV for days, for months on end, how can they NOT issue arrest warrents?
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  705. The Japanese used things very like modern high-explosive shells in the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. A long time ago I read a very interesting book called: "Tsushima, the Death of a Floating City" written by a man who was an engineering officer on a Russian battleship, of the Baltic Fleet, who was captured in the battle that effectively destroyed the Russian navy, at Tsushima, which is somewhere between Japan and China. He reported that the Russian shells, which were filled with black powder, "merely took the paint off" Japanese ships when they hit them, which was not that often. While Japanese shells, were filled with high-explosive and destroyed the Russian ships, when they hit, with most shells hitting what they were aimed at.
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  706. I forgot to say the prediction is by Victoria Nuland.
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  707. But if Ukraine loses before October 2024 then Trump will get in anyway. So one can place one's bets now.
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  708. 5:43 Fleedom Morecures, plesumabry!
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  709. 11:56 Perhaps as the G7 economies decline the "leaders" feel less and les adequate and the Meetings are a "jolly" which makes them feel important and they can boost each others' self confidence (And , probably, the food is splendid!) Also, like Zelensky, though to a lesser extent, it is good to be away from home with all its little and not so little problems!
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  710.  mentesinquietas9712  A good summary.
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  711. 39:40 IOW, it is not a strategy, it is a strategem.
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  712. 23:50 Maybe they are planning some other offensive altogether? And this May offensive is smokescreen? That would make more sense if it were so. May be, the offensive is REALLY scheduled for mid-April? You know, to catch the Russians off guard! Ha ha!
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  713. 30:30 Yes! You can look on Ukraine as an example of "Pacification" US Style!
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  714. 11:49 The West is like a gambler out of luck and money serching all his pockets looking for the odd coin that might have been, somehow, overlooked! (If he does find the odd coin or note, it will not change his luck!)
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  715. 2;42 Please do cover the Skripal inquest story! I am very anxious to hear what girations the UKG makes this time! Last I heard about it the story as told by them was more full of holes than a piece of pumice! Where are the Skripals, BTW?
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  716. 38:23 Maybe, this prohibition on trade in Russian diamonds, is designed to destroy competition to the US diamond trade? Just as the embargo on Russian Gas. destroyed the German industries and the ban on buying Russian Gas benefitted the US trade in LNG? It all seems to be in the same pattern. I even see reports, that the US is buying Russian oil to give to the Ukrainian military!
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  717. As I said in a comment on one of Alex's pieces, Borzzikman reports that in the last month or so, there have been a surprisingly large number of Top NATO Brass, who have died, in accidents in cars, in boats, in helicopters on horseback and climbing mountains, with the implication that these "might be connected" with strikes on "command centres" or whatever it is they are called. Another commentator said that the same seemed to apply to NATO pilots.
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  718. 13:28 George Marshall et al were concerned to get Germany running again after the destruction of WW2 in order to get them to help defeat Russia. The same was true of Japan and South Korea. None of the motivation was to help the Germans, the Japanese or the Koreans. The aim has been constant throughout.
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  719. Too true!
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  720.  @onerxowns2202  Yes. Could be.
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  721. 17:28 If Trump is elected the course of events will depend crucially on how determined he is to have his way and how ruthless he is in cleaning the swamp. If he is not quick at firing a lot of enemies he will be corraled as he was last time. I wonder if he could have Jessie Ventura as VP? That would be some combo!
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  722. 13:05 I would suggest that Orban go and talk to the Chinese ambassodor and get in touch with Prof. Micharael Hudson.
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  723. 29:13 While having a weakened EU may be a drag on the US, it is probably an advantage for US industries. (Cars for example.)
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  724. 16:37 Did I dream it? Or is there support for the Maduro government from Iran? I seem to remember something about Iran supplying much-needed consumer goods to Venezuela.
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  725. 20:30 The Ukrainian MIC churning out all the weapons Ukraine needs (Including F-16s?) is not so much a fantasy as a propaganda theme. It is a determined effort to fool the ignorant and stupid. A fantasy, to be a fantasy would need to exist in the minds of the people putting it forward. Wouldn't it? Of course, for the Ukrainian MIC to build tanks, they would need lots and lots of scrap steel. They would be well placed for that!
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  726. 1:36:10 How far do the European leaders follow the Washington lead because of the activities of Jeffery E. and his little black book? If it's not that, what keeps them toeing the line?
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  727. 9L23 What these US officials (Ex-Officials) are saying, reinforces the view, that were Taiwan to vanish under the waves in some geological disaster, it would make no difference to the US desire for a war with China.
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  728. 5:18 But The Palestinian Authority has ratified the Rome Convention.
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  729. 19:30 Probably in Bloombergworld reality=misinformation, and one would not want to be accused of peddling misinformation. Would one?
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  730. The question I would ask Prof. John Mearsheimer, is how extensive in the US, is the base for the messianic idea, that the US is obliged to police the World and make it safe for "Democracy, freedom and woke ideas"? And, how far is it an artifact, cultivated by rh MIC and its beneficiaries?
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  731. 23:47 I am not clear about the history of post WW2 Western Ukraine, but my impression is that the Banderites survived the defeat of Na*i Germany and were, after the war cultivated by the US/CIA/German intelligence organization called the "Gehlen Organization", which the CW took over wholesale from the German government, when they defeated them, to spy on and sabotage the USSR..
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  732. 13:31 So what you are saying is that the US is becoming a Dictatorship, with an invisible, anonymous Dictator!? And a decorative President?
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  733. 55:54 I don't know about wind or geothermal energy in Iran but there must be (I would imagine.) huge opportunities for solar energy.
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  734. BTW, I would really like an e-mail to contact.
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  735.  @stephenburnage7687  I don't know. I have not heard of its winding up.
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  736. The Uniparty is wholly owned by AIPAC.
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  737. 8:45 Alternative Russian government. Dues the Russian royal family still maintain that they are the legitimate Russian government?
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  738. It will also encourage Russian tourists to go to China.
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  739. 31:35 More than ever the expression "The air is full of chickens coming home to roost" seems appropriate. Thank you both for making contemporary History so clear. Maybe the BRICS's currency unit should be referred to as "The Brick". It could, perhaps, be represented by a "B" with two horizontal lines through it? If it were backed by gold, perhaps "The Gold Brick"?
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  740. 9:00 What about the Kurds?
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  741. Off topic: it has just occurred to me that the "Woke" movement is a sort of overshoot from an unduly repressive and censorious past and will, probably, over time, correct itself, as people get fed up with its present gross idiocies. The "new equilibrium" will be, probably, more favourable to women, minorities and abnormal sexual self-perceptions than the previous climate was, but will be shorn of the more idiotic "corrections" of the present day.
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  742. 7:45 Do the USAmericans want the Chinese to stop buying Russian oil?
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  743. 12:39 "Why are you continuing to support this failed comedian?" It looks like the fallacy (I have forgotten its proper, technical name) that says: "We have spent so much money/goods/prospects, etc. on this project already, so to stop now, would be a betrayal of all the lives/goods/wealth/etc. sacrificed to this project in the past!"
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  744. 16:56 The European "leaders" in Kiev; There an old saying in Chinese that describes this sort of habitual behavior that has lost its meaning: "So long as one remains a monk, one goes on tolling the bell."
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  745. 28:14 "don't pay any attention" No, NO! If you get any assurance, treat it as a warning! These people don't just lie, almost everything they say is the exact opposite of what they are intending.
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  746. 8:05 NATO is not weaker than it was, in February 2022, BUT, its real weakness has been exposed, like never before. "The mightiest military Machine the World has ever seen", with its massive armies, fleets of aircraft, thousands of tanks, limitless fleets of armoured vehicles of every sort, massive fleets patrolling the World's oceans and with the US at least, with military bases all over the World, etc., etc., that existed in the public imagination, has been shown to lack, not merely ammunition, but the ability to produce it in the quantities needed, in the requisite time-frame! It's expertise, has also suffered a terrible dimuniton in public estimation, for its reckless and frankly stupid, overestimation of the Ukrainians and its underestimation of the Russians. Its planning and forethought have also been shown to be severely deficient by the disaster that was the long-touted Offensive and its obvoius lack of any plan of what to do now that it is losing the war. ("Oops! We did not think of that!")
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  747.  @niblet112  Put it down to "British understatement."
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  748.  @mikeaugust747  "they got taken down a peg." They got cut off at the knees, more like. Not the action of a friend!
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  749.  @mikeaugust747  That is the sort of "Friend" I would pay good money not to have.
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  750.  @peterrinas3862  As Kissinger put it: (Or words to that effect) "To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, to be a friend is fatal." I am older than you, I worked in many dying companies in Britain. Post Margaret Thatcher, there were many of them. I applied for a job in a company that was not dying (It made machinery for making pet food.) I submitted a resume of my previous jobs, the interviewer said:" There is one thing I don't like about your resume, nearly every company you worked for has gone bankrupt!" I had to explain to him, that when companies were going out of business, staff left, but they still had orders to fulfil, so they had to employ people like me, on a temporary basis, to finish off the work. Many of the companies I worked for, were in the process of moving their work to Germany. I think you were 30-50 years ahead of us.
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  751. It may be that the CW always think short-term and the Chinese always think long-term. The threat to put tariffs on Chinese EVs would cause (perhaps) a short term problem for China, putting a stop to trade with Russia would be a long-term threat to China. IDK, can the CW leaders be that stupid? If you judge by what they say and do, it seems, they are!
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  752. Welcome back Alex! Don't you think that the "Policy of Drift" that can be seen throughout the Collective West is not accidentally all-pervasive, but is rather the determined policy. Yes, it is bad for the common people but who, in the political class, cares about the common people? If they have it rough, well, so long as they don't revolt, so what? The real crisis is that the common people seem to have no even potential leader.
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  753. 5:37 "They are moving step by step towards a visa ban for Russians, why?" They are doing it because they have no choice - puppets never have. The question is who is/are the puppeteers and how are they exerting their control?
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  754. 23:17 Die Wessies haben neue Wunderwaffen!
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  755. I donot agree with this assessment of NATO at all. After WW2 there was a very powerful MIC in the US and a lack of customers for it. The MIC itself was almost entirely privately owned. It needed customers to survive. It therefore invented "the Soviet threat", to persuade the population of the Western countries that they needed to buy large quantities of weapons to defend themselves from the imaginary threat posed by the Soviet Union. I say "imaginary" because at Yalta, Stalin, Churchill and FDR had carved up the World into sphere of influence which all of them, religiously, stuck to until the USSR finally collapsed. At some time after the end of WW2, I don't know exactly when it happened, the practice of Lobbying (Bribery) was legalised and the MIC was effectivly able to buy Congressional support and with that, to buy the US government, which has been the situation ever since. Since that happened, the foreign policy of the US has been determined by the interests, not of the US people, but the interests of the MIC! It still is. Being a collection of greedy capitalists and their shareholders, it is willing to take horrendous risks with the safety of the World merely to increase their quarterly returns. Expanding NATO simply increases the revenue stream. It is an odd phenomenon. I cannot think of another example of the same or an analogous phenomenon in history, nor even from evolution.
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  756. 26:34 The neocons never think about the problems of production and similar matters. I should think that the reason for this is that hardly any of them have a STEM background. Probably hardly one of them has worked in a factory or even been in management.
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  757. Hamas will not welcome what the Russians and Chinese are doing.
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  758. At the moment, 28/11/23, The Russians and the Chinese together, have overwhelming military strength, even without roping in allies, that I am sure would support them. They can therefore force changes, even radical changes on the administration in Washington, even to the extent of breaking up the cosy little "MIC - Lobbyist+MSM -- Congress - USG - back to MIC", vicious circle that exists today and seems set to last for ever.
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  759. 12:33 Probably intended to scare the Russians.
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  760. 18:23 I think Alex is playing down the "influence" of the"Integrity Initiative" (The media arm of the 5-Eyes) which has its asset in every MSM outlet to tell the chief editor, on a daily basis, what is "News" and what is "Non-news" and what is "Misinformation". (A sort of "triage nurse" for the newsroom.)
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  761. 36:56 It seems to me that the AfD is the "negation of the negation", where the former Socialist and Communists have become the Right-wing with thoroughly reactionary policies and the allegedly Right-wing, while the AfD have become the party of the Working Class!
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  762. Sorry! I miswrote that. I meant to say: " while the allegedly Right-wing, AfD have become the party of the Working Class!"
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  763.  @lowersaxon  Thanks.
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  764. The problem with US diplomacy is not that it is "not sensible". The problem is that it is dishonest. They say one thing today and something else tomorrow. They say one thing and do something quite else. Over and over again. They lambast China, and threaten war over Chinese "mistreatment" of Muslims in Xinjiang and at the same time support Israel, which really is mistreating Muslims and others in Gaza.
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  765. 18:33 Taking your "Paeasitic analogy" You two are, like it or not, cast in the role of anti-bodies!
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  766. Apologies for typo. Parasitic
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  767. 17:26; I doubt that the MSM will "Stack up behind it". The MSM is owned and controlled by Yunohus who will mostly back Netanyahoo. Let's hope I am wrong.
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  768. 1:41:03 I would like to ask Prof Sachs: what (If such there is.) is the relationship between the Israeli belief that they are "the chosen people and all the rest of us are mere cattle pretending to be humans" and the US belief that "the USA is the shining city on a hill that everyone wants to emulate. The Indespensible nation etc., etc"? To me they look very similar, but is this a case of a common origin or is it a case of convergent evolution?
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  769. "They have exposed how out of his depth and lacking in skill Joe Biden is" Ne ullos dubitet!
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  770. 36:09 Biden makes it absolutely clear that the POTUS does not run the USA! Biden, i would guess, would be hard put to run a sweet shop opposite a school!
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  771. There are several decisively important diferences from the 60s. First, there is the internet and social media. Second, there is the Muslim World, which had no religious interest in Vietnam. Thirdly, there is a big Muslim vote in the US which is largely Democratic voters. Fourthly, the Arab countries are far less puppets of Washington than they were then and are better armed. Fifthly there are Russia, China, Turkie and Iran hovering in the background and in the UN. Sixthly, there is far less US control of the UNGA and the Security Council. Seventhly, there is a far greater debt problem hanging over the US. There may well be others that I have forgotten.
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  772. Quite clearly the people who "investigated" Trump, were working for PUTIN!
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  773. 51:53 Even thinking of "it" as Western Agression is really wishful thinking! These people, who are supporting war in Ukraine and in Palestine are not pro-Western they are Anti-People! They don't care who gets killed so long as their pockets are filled! I suspect that they are secretly (Or not so secretly.) in league with the WEF idea that there are too many people in the World. Any talk about their "Values" is purest hogwash. If they have any values they are not anything that they would want any ordinary person to know about.
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  774. 17:18 Judging by past activities, as the move failed in Vietnam, it will be tried again in Ukraine.
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  775.  @izolabela  Thanks!
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  776. Perhaps it's time for a trial of Athenian style democracy, i.e. you hold a lottery to pick your MPs and Ministers from all the willing and eligible adults? Could the result be worse than what you have? I doubt it. This scheme has a lot of advantages, it is a good cross section of the population, it favours minorities in that they get a fair number of seats, small of course, but that is fair, it favours neither sex, it does not discriminate against the rich or poor, it gets rid of nearly all the razzamataz of elections and all the canvassing and that sort of time-wasting activity, it does not lend itself to corruption. You audit everyone who wins a seat when they win and when their term is up. Sounds good to me.
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  777. Oh yes! I forgot, you get rid of all lying election promises. Get the Magic Circle (The organization of professional {stage} magicians.) to supervise the selection process, because they know all the ways of making the "right" card jump out of the pack.
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  778. I also forgot to add that if you limit each person selected, to one term in office, you not only make corruption very hard and dangerous and even if successful, limited to one term, but you do away with the profession of professional politician!
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  779. 7:20 It seems to me, that thr Russians, incvluding those in the UN, "missed a trick" in not championing the right to speak their own language of the Greek, Hungarian and Romanian Ukrainians who were similarly persecuted for wanting to use their own language.
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  780. 38:10 The US has made clear, many times, explicitly, that it is hostile to anyone, any country that is not an ally! That is not prepared to declare itself an ally of the USA.
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  781.  @lorenzomagazzeni5425  China is a country about the same size as the US. It use to be the case that some parts were so far from the main centres of population that it took weeks or even month to get there. With enemy organizations always trying to stir up trouble, it made it easier for them if the centre was weeks away. It was difficult to develop the outer parts of the country, because it was so hard to get people and things into and out of the far away places. If someone fell seriously ill, in some parts of old China, they would die before a doctor could get to them or they could get to a doctor (See a book by Josh Horne called "Away with all pests!") To develop the economy and to raise all people out of poverty it was neccessary to enable everybody to be able to trade with each other. So the government built roads to every village, masses of bridges to shorten routs and then railways. Evidently, they thought that while they were building a railway they might as well make it a high speed one. The result is that the interior of China is now developing rapidly. Instead of weeks it now takes a matter of hours to get from one end of the country to the other. People in remote villages can sell stuff on the internet by post and they do. The problem with the wheels of an HST, is that the centrifugal force on a wheel rotating that fast is huge and unless the wheel is very strong it will fly to pieces. If you make it as a solid lump of steel the noise is terrible. The other problem is the bearings which have to be quite special, as otherwise they might seize up and derail the train, or as happened once in Germany a composite wheel came apart in the course of a journey, the rim of the wheel unrolled and came up through the floor of the carriage, passing between two people sitting there! The train left the track and IMMSMC hit a bridge. Quite a lot of people were killed. Obviously, the railways are an important strategic asset too.
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  782. 8: 34 I wonder if you have seen the very detailed account of that utterly corrupt decision about the Japanese residents and how they were robbed of their property? If you haven't it is availalable in the Unz Review. A fascinating and at the same time disgusting read.
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  783. 23:21 The great objection to democracy: "The Tyrrany of the Majority". That is what is making it so to get rid of Putin!
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  784. That should have been : "so hard to get rid"
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  785. 7:31 I read an expression by an American author, writing about something else, but the term seems appropriate here to describe the thing you are talking about: "Hostiles with smiling faces."
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  786.  @jamiemcintosh3030  In Eastern Europe?
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  787.  @jamiemcintosh3030  No. Czechoslavakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Russia and the DDR. In Western Europe I saw only France, Belgium and West Germany.
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  788. 25:22 Yesterday there were about four stories in Yahoo UK about the war, Today, just one.
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  789. 22:33 If they do what is right, what about Diego Gacia?
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  790. 28:22 "What about the Europeans?" Yes, very good question! What is it that drives them to do the idiotic things they do? What is their motivation? Are they all afflicted with some infectious madness? It does not seem likely. Are they being blackmailed? Are they being threatened or are they, perhaps, being bribed? If, (Let's suppose) they were being bribed, would Trump cut off the supply of money? Is that, could that be, why they are afraid of Biden losing the election? Though none of them seem all that bright, they none of them look clinically insane, so wtf is it driving them?
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  791. 1:13:34 How did the CW get to the point where really childish people are in charge of policy. This is the result, not of democracy but of Oligarchy. Oligachy moreover, that makes its principle source of wealtth from Arms.
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  792. I wonder if I could get you gentlemen to comment on my idea that the central "Gordian Knot" at the centre of the warmongers power over Washington, is the circular structure consisting of: the investor/Congress-critters - the USG - the arms industry - the lobbyist industry - and back to the the investor/Congress-critters. All of course funded by the Taxpayers. I feel that this extremely stable and aggressively self-protective structure, could be broken, if there is a decisive defeat of N@0 in Ukraine and the Russians were to insist, as part of the settlement, that all arms manufacturers had to be nationalized. Do you think it would have a decisive effect or am I fooling myself?
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  793. The MSM is a combination of a profit-making set-up and a propaganda arm of the Western Governments, particularly the US and the UK governments, so their narratives are set for them. The promulgate what makes money, what sells, and what suits the governments' narratives. Spreading information ain't got nuttin' to do wiv it!
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  794. The problem the US/Israeli side has, in PR terms is, that the terrible, outrageous things that Ham*s did, were exactlly like the things that Israel has been doing to the Palestinians, on and off since 1948 and even before!
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  795. 30:08 Why do the Israeli and the US Ruling class want war? Because they are all invested in the MIC. Their incomes depend on there being Wars, threats of Wars and rumours of Wars. Without that, they would have to live on their salaries! They would be not just poor, but desperately poor! You know, down to their last million or something dreadful like that!
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  796. 26:42 It's not just the Biden White House, it is equally, their satraps and Gauleiters in Europe, who loyally echo every idiocy they pronounce.
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  797.  @JokerDR71  "Solide Entscheidung" = Solid choice. (De)
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  798. 33:31 It wasn't the CW "Supporting" Ukraine, it was, rather, the CW shoving Ukraine into a war with Russia. "Let's you and him fight!"
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  799. 12:15 I see that this video was shown "2 hours ago", but I keep feeling deja vu! Are you sure it was not shown yeserday evening? Or perhaps, I am time-travelling in my dotage?
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  800. 11:26 The Russians do blame Britain.
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  801. 1:08:21 Tis inability of the political West to give up its ideas of hegemony is a symptom of its underlying F*scism. It is really the modern incarnation of the idea of the Herrenvolk. (The Master race aka the Exceptionals.)
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  802. Scott, I agree with what you say, more or less completely, what I think you are neglecting is the positive feedback loop that is driving the arms race, which is the nest of congress-critters who own shares in the arms industry and receive not only dividends but also direct bribes, campaign contributions and other kickbacks and operate a revolving door that reaches out to the military. Until that vipers' nest is dealt with, any emergent leader to lead us out of the current Slough of Despond (TM John Bunyan), will be cut down to nothingness by the MSM or assassinated. Many thanks to all three of you for a really fascinating and illuminating couple of hours. You brought up a number of important points which I had previously missed.
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  803. 2: 55 In the EU we are all free to do as we are told!
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  804. 35:23 "The Argument" you are talking about assumes that the POTUS has real power. I.e is not simply a puppet of the Deep State.
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  805. 21:17 Heaven forfend that a situation should arise where questions about the nuclear buttom had to be answered! Who would make the desision; Demented Joe or Bewildered Kamala?
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  806. Probably, it would be best if they discussed it between them.
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  807. 1:32$& Do you thik that the ludicous level of mediocrity in Western leaders, is a consequence of a system where the way to get promotion, is obeying orders rather than making a success of what you are doing?
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  808. 19:55 There is a change in psychology. Up until about autumn 22 or spring 23 perhaps even as late as autmn 2023, countries were shit scared of offending the US. Since the Russians dared to go head-to-head with NATO, that fear has more or less evaporated and African countrries have thrown out French and US troops! And Saudi Arabia has stopped kow towing to the US and Turkey is toying with joining BRICS. If NATO had trounced the Russians in Ukraine, my feeling is, that none of these things would have happened.
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  809. At the end of the Ukraine SMO, Russiais going to have an abundance of scrap iron!
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  810. 29:25 It highlights their gangster mentality. this is the sort of scheme that crooked lawyers in detective stories cook up. Sounds OK, until you examine it properly.
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  811. 20:47 Probably, it is dangerous to be caught listening to Vladimir Putin in the original or even in translation. If you were, you would probably be suspected of disloyalty, or worse! Don't forget, that everything you access on the internet is logged and can "be used in evidence against you".
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  812. 2:91 I wonder why V. Nuland is not standing for president?
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  813.  @danielkurtovic9099  Yes, I am. The firm developed colour photos and was called "Colorcare Internatiomal"
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  814.  @ianhills8980 
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  815. 29:26 Do any of them think that greenlighting Ukraine to launch attacks "deep inside Russia" is going to win them the war?
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  816. 12:04 "They are acquiring a degree of confidence that they did not have before" Yes! & I should think that the one thing that gives them the most new confidence, is the way the War in Ukraine has shown up NATO for the paper tiger that is really is. Yes it it is still terrible and dangerous but no longer "invincible".
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  817. 23:56 They can't back down because that would make them "look weak"! "What would the Chinese think?!?"
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  818. The principle contradiction today is that between the people running the US who want to preserve or re-impose the hegemony of the US, their allies/satraps/vassals/puppets and the rest of the World. That does not mean that the eternal class struugle, has disappeared. It just means that it is not, currently,* the principle contradiction. This is probably why the old "Left"-"Right" terms have been muddled up and half-forgotten. *Similarly to the situation during WW2.
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  819. 37:08 "A huge mistake". It seems to me that you can only make sense of the situation between the US and Russia today, if you onderstand that the long-term aim in Washington, is the conquest, break-up and looting of Russia, a la mode de the Yeltsin Era.
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  820. 1:28 This probably means that this is what the US is planning to do or is about to do. If there is a treaty forbidding anyone from putting nuclear weapons in space, it is probably about time for the US to do "the usual": to violate its treaty obligations.
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  821. 24:09 Do you, Alex & Alexander, think that the CIA believes that "the Elensky Regime blew up NS" ?
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  822. "The New Security Architecture" has to encompass the whole World or it will not be stable.
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  823. 45:00 The lopsided balance that the USA favours, where the rest of the World is dominated by the USA is, of course, exactly opposed to the "Win-Win situation" advocated by China.
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  824. 8:40 Where there is chaos, you can probably get money if you are in the right position.
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  825. 19:25 This whole thing, this whole Project Ukraine is not the whole story. It and Zelemsky are just tools being used as part of a wider Project, namely PROJECT DESTROY RUSSIA! This what the 800 bases world wide are all about. Like Project Ukraine, N@0 is just part of a wider Whole. If Project Ukraine goes down the tubes, well, that's a pity and no doubt an important setback but it will not, by itself, be the end of the story. It could lead to that, but it will not neccessarily do so.
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  826. 11:38 Don't forget that this is also a sequel to Hong Kong.
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  827. 33:36 "They could have negotiated. . . . . . . " No they could not have negotiated, not without a Regime Change in Washington DC, because there is a ruling faction in WDC (and there has been since probably before WW2) that has always wanted to get into a position either to destroy or to blackmail the USSR/Russia and Ukraine in NATO, with nuclear weapons in Ukraine, would have been the fulfillment of a long-held dream. Destroying Europe/Germany, I think, was either an ad-lib afterthought, or an unexpected bonus, when the Russia collapse did not happen or just the icing on the cake. It was not the primary aim when egging the Russians into the attack. (I feel that that last sentence could be better constructed, but its late and I can't be bothered. Apologies.)
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  828. About the labelling of Le Pen not being logical, considering her policies are almost the same as Melanchon's; you have to realize that propaganda is very seldom logical. I mean, look at the labelling of Jeremy Corbin as "Racist" and "Anti-Semitic"! Or the melt-down over the Security pact between The Solomon Islands and China, as a existential threat to , not only Australia and New Zealand but also to the USA! While Russia is being ridiculous for seeing NATO in Ukraine as a threat!
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  829. I have no idea who it was that came up with the idea of making use of the political illiteracy of the general population to swap the labels "Left" amd "Right"; but it has had the effect (I imagine that was the purpose of the move) of making a meaningful political discussion almost impossible. Or at least, you really have to spend time before a political discussion, defining terms! I suppose, come to think about it, it is all part of the Owellian turning everything upside down and back to front, War = Peace. Attack = Defense. Aid = Exploitation. Etc., etc. ad nauseam.
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  830.  @Cui-bono987  Thanks.
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  831.  @MichaelHolloway  Thanks.
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  832. The countries of the Global South are not controlled by their respective MICs, so their policy tends to favour their own peoples' interests. Therefore, they want PEACE. Always have, always will. The USG, by contrast, is controlled by the US MIC and always wants war, rumours of war and threats of war. Aways has and for obvious resons, always will. That is why treaties with the USG tending to avoid war are essentially worthless.
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  833. 8:45 It's not a "trap", it is the actual position! It is not some "trap" that the Russians or the Chinese set for the Washington Warmongers, it is simply the WWs exposing themselves.
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  834. 31:23 You should say that the US has been "fighting" theses islamic groups, (which were all set up by the CIA with the heelp of the Muslim Brotherhood). Without the Quotation marks " " the phrase is misleading.
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  835. 24:37 Iran has warned, many months ago, that in the event of an attack upon them by the US or Israel, they will instantly destroy all the US military bases and all the oilfields and all the US ships within a 1000 km radius + Tel Aviv and as they showed in their attack upon the US base in Ayn al Assad, they have the means to do so. Is that what the neocons want?
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  836. 7:23 I am reminded of a Ronald Searle cartoon captioned "She drove up in a Tantrum".
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  837. 4:19 Don't forget the Helicopter crash,
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  838. 34:58 Self-destructive decisions, collapse of religion etc. I don't remember who said it but shortly after the USSR collapsed someone said "People who believe in nothing will believe anything at all!"
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  839.  @robertbrandywine  Thanks for the info.
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  840.  @robertbrandywine  I would, however, point out that people who believe in God are more likely to believe in magic.
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  841.  @pariaheep  That is the USG. For details see Ron Unz's long article on how the 1930 Chicago Mob morphed into the present admin.
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  842. 24:12 Maybe the Russian central Bank Reserves were phantom funds in the first place? Maybe this figure was some MSM "Estimate" of the Russian reserves, that was uncritically picked up and repeated over and over, until everyone in the West was convinced that it was true?
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  843. 5:48 I wonder: is it possible to know what the shareholdings of the people who voted for the money for Ukraine, are?
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  844.  @lukasbauer8783  Of course I understand that! That is why "determined to destroy Hamas" has inverted commas around it. The so-called fight was as fraudulent as a $14 banknote.
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  845. 16:07 Perhaps it is to counter the White House's saying: "Don't just stand there! Do something!"
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  846.  @kathylarson8876  It "Sticks out like a sore thumb!"
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  847. 14:17 The ICC is and always has been, a tool of the CW. As the old proverb says: "Truth will out."
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  848. A further thought on Prigozhin is that, is that when I was doing my NS, I was frequently punished for offenses called "Conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline". (An offence type 252, Such as having the wrong pattern of bootlaces or being one minute late returning to barracks.)
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  849. 22:48 Now you mention it this meme of "daring raids on enemy ship in their home harbours" goes much further back than WW2; there is also the "singeing of King Philip's beard by Sir Francis Drake. "on 19th April 1587.
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  850. 21:28 Option 5 : a White House Verbot. A la Suez adventure.
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  851. @gggg-xv7nb Yes! Absolutely! It was such a quick turnaround it was quite startling. I remember a workmate who had been fighting first in North Africa and later in Italy, remarking on how before the war he had read about the wicked awful Ruskies and the dreadful things that they did and what a terrible place Russia was, all filled with evil people and led by demons and then when they entered the war, on our side they were suddenly transformed into heroes! and remained so throughout the war and then, suddenly in 1946 they reverted to their former state. He gave this as justification for his belief that you could trust what the MSM said about sport and the weather and not much else.
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  852. You are right. Almost the only source of serious conflict (conflict which cannot easily be sorted out by diplomacy) is the USA! Wherever there is a conflict, the USA buts in, to try to make it worse! By contrast, the Chinese seem to be trying to mend conflicts and get countries to solve their conflicts peacefully.
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  853. 20:50 Do you think the drivers of this massacre in Ukraine will run out of Ukrainians or ammunition first?
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  854.  @emanuelhendrikx5233  Right! My bad!
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  855. 40:45 This is a bit like someone in a fight, with a stronger opponent, while wearing vitualreality goggles, which show him a rather different opponent and his own avatar, is rather stronger and cleverer than he really is.
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  856. 32:32 It occurs to me that there is an advantage to the Russians in prolonging this war (Not saying that it is a powerful motive, but it is real, not negligible.) and that is that this war is de-militarizing the West inasmuch as it is denuding weapons stockpiles in the West, who are short of raw materials to make weapons.
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  857. We pretend that "Putin has laid down these Red Lines" and then we cross them and then we say; "Look Putin's a patsy! We crossed his red line and he didn't do anything about it!" It is the same technique as saying "The Russiand are going to try to conquer village X by the anniversary of Lavrov's birthday". Then when Lavrov's Birthday comes and village X is still in Ukrainian hands, we say look how feeble the Russians are!"
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  858. Anyone who does not regard Putin as an evil madman is obviously a Putin-lover! I should have thought that was obvious!
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  859. 9:01 You can sum up Donald Tusk and Zelensky by the slogan : "The Demos is us!"
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  860.  @olgag6581  I had not heard that. So why was it possible to make a living smuggling penicillin across the East-West border in 1948? Was the Soviet production insufficient?
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  861. 7:44 I would say that the "the Liberal International Order" was always, at least at heart, partly fraudulent. Take the WTO as an example. So long as the WTO was dominated by the US, the US was quite happy with it, as it enforced its rules on everyone except the US. The US was happy to strongly urge the Chinese to joint the WTO and China did, in spite of many well-wishers who told them it would ruin them and that it was a trap. Then when, some years down the line, the Chinese availed themselves of the WTO court, to ask them to enforce US compliance with WTO rules, the US sabotaged the Courrt and prevented its functioning!
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  862.  @maxio08  Who do you think I am? I don't have any statistics and nor do most people. I could tell you what the Russians say and I could tell you what other countries say they have and have lost, but I cant guarantee any of them are correct, so I don't see the point. At the moment NATO is fighting a limited war and seems to be having trouble keeping up the supply of arms to their soldiers. If they got into a full-scale war, they would very quickly run out of raw materials, never mind, finished products. They would also not be fighting just the Russians but the Chinese and Iranians as well, quite possibly others. They also have no counter to hypersonic weapons.
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  863.  @tsuunited5100  Soros & Co. want approx. 90% dead. About 100,000 elite and 600,000 servants or something like that, IIRC.
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  864.  @takkiejakkie5458  We'll see.
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  865.  Patrick Lambert  I would not disagree with that but, they have to be defeated before that can happen.
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  866. 9:43 Since Elensky and his US masters have no respect at all for even International Law, why would anyone expect them to respect a law promulgated by Elensky himself?
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  867.  @manoftheworld1000  "Did it" & "Had it done" are so similar as to be interchangable. No one thinks, for example, that King's College was actually built by HenryVII. (I expect he was too busy.)
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  868. 12:20 Sort of like Baltic Kurds?
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  869. I'll bet that firms like Pfizer, consult lawyers all the time, particularly when they know they are breaking the law!
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  870. Why are the Ukranians shelling the NPP? The Ukrainians and NATO know that they are going to lose this war (Correction! SMO!) and they want to leave the Russians as big a mess as possible to clear up.
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  871. Why do they lie like this? To make themselves look prescient?
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  872. No mention of Israel?
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  873. 21:58 The Purpose of N@0 FROM THE VERY BEGINNING was to destroy Russia. The purpose of putting bases all around Russia was/is to get into a position to be able to overwhelm Russia with attacks from as many directions as possible. This purpose did not change when the USSR collapsed because, the purpose remained the same. The objection to the USSR was not that it was communist, or authoritarian, but that it was Russia.
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  874. 22:48 " The Mountain has gone into labour and produced - a Mouse!"
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  875. 1642 Is Macron doing a Sakashvili? IOW does he think that if he challenges the Russians and gets smashed the US will come galloping to his rescue? He should ask Michail Sakashvili!
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  876. 0:45 I wonder, while Navalny was in the West, recovering from his poisoning, was he vaccinated with either Pfizer or Astra-Zenecker mRNA vaccine against Cov-19?
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  877. 35:45 The CW is not showing any sympathy for Russians, rich or poor, oligarchs or not.
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  878. 56:36 And in addition to all that you say, there is the destruction of the Myth of NATO Invulnarabity..
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  879. 14:20 Are you familiar with the Dunning-Krueger effect?
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  880. 24:29 "Cometh the time, cometh the man." If someone who could hold out some hope appeared, he might find himself propelled into power. Unfortunately, I can't see hide nor hair of him!
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  881. 33:10 The CPC has always been harrassed by the CIA and the NED. That makes them aware, not paranoid!
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  882. 22:05 "Is a ham sandwich a dual use commodity"? If you are working in a factory making 152mm shells, wouldn't a ham sandwich come in handy?
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  883. 32:24 Don't forget the "shortage of supplies for a long war", longer than, say, 14 days.
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  884. 8:07 I have seen the other day, an article which said that the ring of US bases around China will be no advantage to the US, in the event of an all-out (conventional) war because they have no effective defense against ballistic missiles and the Chinese know exactly where these bases are and have missiles ready to take off for each base, at a moment's notice.
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  885. 6:18 Don't say that the offensive failed, say rather that "The Great Uffensive has somehow not lived up to our high expectations" and put the first three words in large bold script and the rest in very small letters.
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  886. The governments over the years have followed policies that have come back to bite them now. They have failed to fund the development of tidal power, which while not continuous in any one place can be effectively continuous, because the tides happen at different times in different places. It has failed to fund adequately, the development of geothermal power, which is continuous, it has failed to build new nuclear power stations in time and to cap it all, it has had a lot of bad luck, in that the French nuclear power stations, which supplied a lot of cheap power to Britain, cannot do so at the moment because the drought affecting France has left the power stations there bereft of cooling water, while the Norwegian hydroelectric power stations are affected by drought also, as are, I imagine, British hydroelectric power stations too. On top of that wind turbines have produced less than expected because of a lack of wind. Then of course there is the issue of sanctions - a strictly, and willfully self-inflicted injury if ever there was! Probably, most of the British government's policy on power generation can be explained on the assumption that it was was designed to suit the major oil companies, as for example the decision to sell off the North Sea oil and gas fields to them. No doubt, they are large contributors to the Conservative party's funds and, maybe the Labour party's also.
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  887. Privately owned central banks are never "Apolitical"! They are the dictators of policy. If they do not like the policy of their government they refuse to fund it, as Harold Wilson found out, the hard way. This is why one can say that NO government that does not control its own money supply can be considered sovereign. A government with an "Independent" (Aka Privately owned.) central bank is no more independent than is a child reliant on its parents for pocket money.
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  888. 32:11 All these countries that have traditionally been friendly to Russia for historical reasons, like the Russians freeing them from the Turks, are being run or at any rate have been recently run, by puppets of the WoWs. Even if they saw the collapse in Ukraine coming, there was not much they could do about it . Probanly, they talked to the WoWs and were ignored. The people of these countries, I have the impression, are still friendly to the Russians Oh! and BTW Saluzhny is one of the Banderites. He had been fighting with them since 2014, when he was promoted (several ranks), to 4*General.
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  889. When the battle for Donbas ends they may blame you for it!
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  890. 10:19 Didn't the UK MoD say that Britain was goimg to make up the numbers in Ukraine? What happened to that idea?
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  891. I suspect that also in addition to the presssure from
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  892. 23:15 The Anti-Russian fanatics like to hear anti-Russian stories, so that is what they get fed and they believe them, which clouds their judgement even further.
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  893. Not so much of the "Oxy"!
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  894. 32:40 There are three things that may prevent escalation: The election, the shortage of ammunition and Trump.
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  895. 12:44 It seems that this will not address the problem of Idlib?
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  896. 11:34 The minority that profits from war and threats of war, is very tiny. Until they are rendered powerless, however, the World will find no peace. They have the power they have, because they can tap into the flow of wealth that goes to the MIC. If that flow can be disrupted they will be toast.
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  897. 27:00 The countries of the CW are not sovereign. They move fast because their masters tell them to.
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  898. 12:50 Yes., but they're only Ukrainian lives!
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  899. US has nuclear weapons in Britain too.
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  900.  @herrlich1461  That depends on whether the facts contradict the faith or not. If they don't, there is is no reason for the faithful to reject them. Thus, the believers in God almost all believe in the "Big Bang" because it allows them to believe that this was how God created the Universe. They have great difficulty accepting that a lot of evidence suggests that the BB did not happen.
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  901.  @herrlich1461  You don't need to have faith in human laws. It is usually not difficult to find out whether they exist or not. No Lawyer works on faith! Either he knows what he is talking about or he gets drummed out of the profession. There may be uncertainty about whether any given law applies in a particular case, but that again is a matter for argument not faith. "Divine" laws were promulgated, brought to you, by humans. How do you know that they were what God intended? You have faith that they were. I.e. you believe that, with no evidence to support it. Fine. Bully for you! As an Atheist, I prefer to believe things that can be proved, (or at least have supporting evidence) and doubt things which cannot. Many a doubtful thing can be treated as a "working hypothesis" and treated as though it were "true" until something proves that it is not. Animals have evolved to conserve energy. Changing your mind means rewiring circuits in your brain, which takes energy. So, on the whole, people do not lightly change their mind about anything. (Hence the importance of "first impressions" and the reluctance to give up "Faith".)
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  902.  @korhanduranozel  ". But G'd the great creator exists, no one can deny G'd s existence, this is a FACT , have faith on this one." This is a typically statement by a faithful. First assert a fact (Without any proof) and then demand that you "believe it! . "no one can deny G'd s existence, this is a FACT" , This is transparently untrue - a lot of people do deny just this.
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  903.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  The universities such as Cambridge and Oxford, Paris, Heidelberg, and Padua were, as you say, founded by the RC Church. However, as they were set up to study everything, not just how to be a priest, they naturally, over time, caused the people in them to question things and spot the contradictions in the Bible. (Which most "ordinary" people did not ever read for themselves). This led to disputes over dogma and eventually to the "Reformation".
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