Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Dialogue Works" channel.

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  5. I have posted this (more or less) before but I think it is relevant here and I have been surprised that there has been almost no reaction to it. So, with apologies for posting old stuff here it is again: 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, would, I think, kill the "Vicious Circle" stone-dead
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  11. I have posted this elsewhere, but I think it is appropriate to this discussion too, so I'll post it again. I would be interested to hear comments on it. It has elicited remarkably little reaction so far. At the moment in the US (Where almost all the threat of war comes from.) the driving force for wars and threats of war is the complex system, consisting of the arms industry, the USG, the Congress, the Lobbyist Industry and the Shareholders of the arms-manufacturing firms. This complex system functions as a sort of closed loop, with inputs and outputs. Inputs come from the taxpayers, while the outputs are, of course arms and (More importantly in this context.) money to the shareholders of the arms-manufacturers, As the loop is circular in nature we can start anywhere, Let's start with the congress critters. These representatives are chiefly concerned with keeping their positions and are very often shareholders in the Arms Industry as well. They are approched by the Lobbyist industry representatives with an offer which is difficult to ignore. The offer is: if you vote the way we tell you to, we will contribute generously to your re-election expenses. If you don't, we will fund your opponent(s). The Lobbyists are paid by the Arms manufacturers to do this. As a result when there is a proposal to spend money on arms, it is almost always passed, with the result that the taxpayers have to cough up more money and the shareholders get more dividends and the lobbyists get paid by the arm manufacturers, more money to do their next lot of work. This "Vicious Circle" (as I call it) is a very stable set up. It is also very self protective. Many have lost their seats in congress, trying to expose it and break its power. Some have probably died trying. In normal (!) circumstances, it is very difficult to see how this can be broken up by anyone. However, we do have, at the moment, quite abnormal times coming. (Or so it seems to me.) Neightoe is on the brink of a massive defeat and if/when that happens the Russians will be in a position to dictate a lot of the Terms of Settlement. If one of their terms was that all arms manufacturers had to be nationalized, it would disrupt this cosy arrangement. Or, at least, I think it would, because it would cut the financial knot that hold the whole system together. It would remove the financial basis for the "Vicious Circle." OK?
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