Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Zelensky, playing for time" video.

  1. 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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  2. 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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