Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Hindustan Times" channel.

  1. 3:08 "It would be wrong". Yup! It would! It would also be Bloody Difficult, not to say F*ing Impossible! Its like an ant threatening to push over an oak tree. Really, I am an old man, and I have been interested in politics all my life, since my early childhood, but I cannot remember a British government, ever, which produced more stupid, vapid statements and idiotic policies than this one. Its hypocrisy is off the charts - e.g. all its talk about "Human Rights" while keeping Julian Assange locked up for being a Journalist and publisher! All its talk about "Democracy" while being unelected itself! Who voted for Rishi Sunak for PM?
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  2. Belgorod is a civilian target. In other words this is simply terrorist activity by Zelensky's regime, with the complicity of the Collective West.
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  3. As usual, Putin's remark about "US occupied" Germany, is accurate.
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  4. 1:38 The US was at that time, doing its level best to provoke Russia into invading Ukraine. So they should have known that!
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  5. "Took sweeping measures to cut their energy imports from Russia" they surely did! But, without making sure that they could replace them with imports from elsewhere! Turns out that that was not easy. In fact, the chief beneficiary of these embargos was the United States, which partly replaced the European imports from Russia with its own products, at up to five times the price! The Russians did not suffer much, as there is currently a shortage of oil and gas, so they were able to find other customers and as the prices are generally higher than they were, they got similar returns from their trade.
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  6. 0:30 This presumably, means that Denmark, either does not believe that Russia is planning to invade Europe, when it has conquered Ukraine OR that when Russia does, they are planning to surrender.
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  7. Well said! Clare Daly! Would that we had parliaments full of such MPs instead of the zombies and puppets we have.
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  8. Let no one forget that the US forces are in Syria illegally and have been asked by the Iraqi government to leave Iraq.
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  9. About the Budapest Memorandum: note that Russia's declared aims at the start of the SMO did not include destroying Ukraine. Had the Minsk agreements been fulfilled Ukraine would be the same size and shape as ever, though the Donbas peoples' republics would have been autonomous provinces, with recognition/protection for the languages other than Ukrainian, i.e. Russian, Greek, and maybe others, probably Hungarian and Romanian, throughout the country.
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  10. What give the US the right to tell China, who to support and who not to support? Does China tell the US what to do? Does China owe the US a LOT of money? No, it does not On the contrary, the US owes a LOT of money to China! Cheek!
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  11. It is good to have a relatively bias-free source of information on this conflict. Thank you for your coverage.
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  12. "Biggest attack on a European state since WW2" What about Yugoslavia?
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  13. The last time I was in Chishinau, the capital of Moldova, (Just before the Pandemic) I was alarmed to see many posters in the streets, saying in English: "FOR FREE EXPERT, UNBIASED ADVICE, CONTACT THE EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" What, I wondered was the "advice" about? Shortly afterwards the pro-Russian President was ousted.
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  14. Well, so what if Iran is helping Russia? About 30-40 countries in the Collective West are helping Ukraine and no one seems to think that odd or remarkable.
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  15. 2:24 Cutting off the water supply to Crimea was an attack on the civilians and hence a crime against humanity.
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  16. "Netanyahoo has yet to confirm or denythat it was Israel that attacked the Embassy" BIG DEAL! Who else would it be ?
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  17. Why does HT call the Russian government a "Regime"?
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  18. 2:53 "An Italian columnist however has claimed that since DU is a heavy metal, it cannot cause any radioactive phenomenon least of all in the air" All this proves is that Italian columnists are no more reliable than any other Western journalist. He should try telling that to the Iraqis or the Serbians, who have suffered from the poisoning, which causes numerous horrible birth defects and miscarriages. DU when used, contaminates the ground around where it is used, more or less for ever, causing terrible defects in anyone who eats food grown in it and/or particularly in unborn infants. Ukraine was known as "The Breadbasket of Europe". Draw your own conclusions. To my mind, making, never mind using DU ammunition, is a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY and arguably Treason.
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  19. Much weakened, but still dangerous. And evil!
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  20. "Israel has no plan to safeguard 1.4 million Palestinians in Rafah?" You can bet your bottom dollar on that! Just listen to what members of the Israeli Cabinet say about their plans for all Palestinians. "Safeguarding" does not come into it!
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  21. 0:52 If your caption is correct the UK MoD is showing its ignorance, as usual! "Donetsk Oblast" is the Province of Donetsk. "Donetsk City" is the capital city of the DPR, or the Donetsk Oblast (if you prefer.) Donetsk city is not in danger of being encircled. Encircling, what is left of Donetsk Oblast in Ukrainian possession, is a major Russian move, which will, probably, drive Ukraine out of the DPR completely. If it is encircled, it will be a major crisis for the AFU.
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  22. *****3:03 It wasn't just "arming" Ukraine, it was arming Ukraine and talking about having Ukraine join NATO and training the largest army in Europe to NATO standards and using it in slaughtering Russian-speaking Ukrainians for being Russian -speaking! At last year's Munich Security Conference, Zelensky was talking about acquiring nuclear weapons and no western leader raised the slightest protest or corrected him in any way.
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  23. 1:33 "In 2014, when Russia's efforts to keep Ukraine in its orbit" This is a "funny" way of saying "In 2014, when the US engineered a coup d'etat in Ukraine, overthrowing a properly elected government that had been elected on a ticket of cooperation with Russia...."
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  24. 3:27 Aren't the Indians and Pakistanis ashamed that after more than 70 years of independence from Britain they are still at loggerhead with each other?
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  25. "Biggest attack on a European state since WW2." What about Yugoslavia?
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  26. There was no "deadlock in negotiations" The Russians and Ukrainians negotiated in Istanbul and the Ukrainians made certain proposals. The talks then stopped for the two parties to consider their next moves. Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev and told the Ukrainians to break off negotiations as MATO would give them enough Military aid to enable them to defeat Russia. So that was what the Ukrainians did. That is not "deadlock" that is Sabotage by NATO.
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  27. Good. Balanced, impartial reporting. Let's have more of it.
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  28. "Wonder weapons" "Wunderwaffen" have usually been a disappointment. At least in modern times. The Germans, in WW2, had great hopes of their V1 and even more of their V2, but both made almost no difference to the course of the war. The real problem was that Germany had taken on the USSR and then most of the rest of the world. No Wunderwaffen could cure that! It takes something like the invention of firearms to make such a difference and even then it can sometimes fail. For instance the Maories had no modern weapons but by guerrilla warfare and brilliant generalship, they fought the British Army to a stalemate over twenty years. Napalm and Agent Orange, along with things that detected "Vietcong" by smell, were thought of as being certain to defeat the Vietnamese, but they didn't. In my opinion, the morale and professionalism of the soldiers and the skill of their generals fighting, has a far greater effect on the outcome of a war than the weapons employed. Take the Chinese Civil War as an example!
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  29. I doubt this story.
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  30. It seems that reactionaries tend to put their faith in Wunderwaffen. The Germans did it in WW2. First they thought that the Blitzkrieg, would bring the UK to the negotiating table. It nearly did but they reckoned without the hatred they had stirred up. Then they thought that their superior Luftwaffe would destroy the RAF. Because the UK had a brilliant General in Dowding and brave and generous pilots, that did not happen. Then they thought that the V1 would bring the UK to its knees. It didn't. Then the V2 was going to do it. It didn't. They were using some of their best scientist to research flying saucers and thought transference. They still lost the war. They even declared war on the US! In Ukraine, the war was going to be decided by Javelins. (Some Ukrainians actually named their new-born children after this WW!) Then it was the Stinger. Then it was the Turkish Bayrackter Drone. Then the HYMARS. Now we have the Storm Shadow and the Patriot. After that comes the F-16. What the NATO forces really need is old fashioned artillery shells and this, it seems, is impossible to obtain in time. The Russians on the other hand have no Wunderwaffen. They have heavy, old fashioned, hardwearing artillery, masses of ammunition, masses of tough old fashioned tanks, masses of accurate guided missiles, masses of accurate guided bombs, masses of lethal drones and masses of observation drones and motivated soldiers and they are winning. None of the Wunderwaffen so far has helped to turn the tide of war, which the Russians have been "losing" all along. Strange that. Innit?
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  31.  @Only1Kingmark  Replying to abhi brodha No. It's not just senseless, it is worse than that! It is mostly the exact opposite of the truth.
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  32. 2:48 Well said, Mao Ning! You tell 'em!
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  33. 4:03 It looks as though the West would struggle to go into war-time production mode, as it needs supplies from Russia and China to do so and it has no reserves of skilled labour, needed to make large amounts of ammunition. The US has ordered weapons for the Ukrainians but the delivery is for months or years ahead.
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  34. When you are reasonably comfortable, you just mind your own business and put up with small inconveniences. "I'm not interested in politics!" Maybe you'll grumble a bit. When you find yourself on the dole, you get a bit more angry and start looking for the causes of your misery. When the dole is inadequate to provide both food and warmth you tend to get really angry. "Politics" suddenly becomes a matter of consuming interest. Hunger and cold are great teachers, but however angry you get, you will not find correct answers in the MSM. Some will say: "read between the lines." My advice is "read between the lies." If you turn everything you read in the MSM upside down, you will usually have an approximation to the truth which is a closer approximation than the MSM's version.
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  35. "French minister said western ecomomies will take a hit if Russia wins Ukraine war. Ukraine accounts for 30% of global wheat exports; Russia would control it if it wins; Sejourne" At the moment, European farmers are preventing Europe from importing wheat from Ukraine. They say that Ukrainian wheat is contaminated with pesticides and other things and is too cheap, undercutting them in their home markets. So how would Russia being in control in Ukraine make things worse?
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  36. Who provided the money? Who do you think!? The taxpayers, of course!!
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  37. It's wonderful that someone even has to say that Russia has to be present! What were the others saying? "Go away! We're not talking to you, we're talking about you!" (?)
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  38. Note also, that the Collective West (CW) has supplied depleted Uranium rounds for Ukraine to use in the War, which will make it dangerous for anyone to eat food produced in Ukraine, as has already been shown in Iraq and Serbia.
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  39.  thulomanchay  No it can't. It is already in a war. No country that is already in a war is allowed to join NATO. For obvious reasons.
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  40. 1:49 "We will do whatever it takes to ensure that Russia cannot win this war." You, Macron should have thought of that before you and your buddies provoked this war. The question that rises unbidden to my mind when I read your statement is: "Yeah? You and whose army?"
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  41.  @Lee_303  "Which country did the Nazis relocate to after ww2?" Seems a non-answer to my comment. However, since you ask, many quite senior Nazi officials went to Argentina after WW2. Many Nazi engineers and scientists, were taken by the US to help their war-industries under "Operation Paperclip". I know that some engineers and Scientists who had worked under the Nazis during WW2 and may or may not have been Nazis were taken to the USSR after the war. Is that any help?
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  42. Thank you for showing this and similar events that the tame media we have here will not show.
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  43. 1:41 How about some "Security guarantees" for the Palestinians? Without such, these proposals are just "kicking the can down the road." Likewise the proposal for "the release of all the hostages" If this does not mean all the Palestinians extra-judidicially locked up by Israel, as well as the hostages captured by Hamas, it is a non-starter, a dead-letter, a dud. The whole situation for the Collective West is horribly complicated by the hideous spectacle of their ally Israel, openly committing war crimes and crimes against humanity and the horrible spectacle being shown on television and social media around the World, coupled with their own long history of hypocritical concern for "Human Rights" around the World allegedly committed by their political opponents.
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  44.  Bewlay Brother  Absolutely not true! "Dpleted Uranium" is not as radioactive as undepleted uranium but it is still radioactive. The ash from DU ammunition is still producing hideous deformities in Iraqi and Serbian babies and will do so for many, many generations to come.
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  45. Whhy else would they, would anyone, train Nazis? It's not just Germany!
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  46. One might ask why the USG is worried about the fate of Pannun. The excuse that "he was a citizen of the US" does not wash. Gonzalo Lira was also a citzen of the US, but when he was murdered by the Ukrainian government the USG protested not a word!
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  47. 4:02 Time to end the war in the typical US fashion: Declare a victory and walk away.
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  48. 2:06 "Is it such a big problem? Is it not feasible to provide Ukraine with the minimum request?" Yes it is a problem. There are not many of them left.
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  49. 2:54 "In a strong response, Zelensky drew parallels between Putin and Hitler" Strong response or not, insults are not arguments. They do not move the discussion forward. Nor are they going to affect the trajectory of the war.
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  50. Can someone explain to me what is the essential difference between what the N*ZIs did to the J*ws during WW2 and what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians now? Please!
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  51. Making such shells should be made (If it isn't already.) a crime against Humanity.
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  52. Meanwhile, at least until he is free, stop lecturing other countries about "Human Rights"!
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  53.  @jayovski82wreckingcrew  A load of cobblers'.
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  54. Ich auch!
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  55. @ Stephan Buchin Yes, I expect the Europeans will manage at least in part, to correct their mistake but it has already cost them dearly and will cost them still more in future. You say the Russians are struggling to sell their oil and gas. Where is your evidence for that? As there seems to be a shortage of both I find it difficult to believe it is much of a struggle. The co-operation between OPEC and Russia is likely to keep the prices high at least for the foreseeable future. Given that China and India are not going to co-operate in the price-cap idea, I doubt that the Russians are going to suffer much if at all.
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  56. Yes. The war in Ukraine and the provocations over Taiwan have certainly shown both the Russians and the Chinese who their friends and who their enemies are! The Warmongers in the White House have done a great job of match making! Not so long ago, it was widely believed in the West, that there would never be friendship (Never mind an alliance ) between Moscow and Beijing. Now, thanks to skillful matchmaking by Washington, it looks Highly Likely!
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  57. The thing is that to support the US's war on Russia the European "Allies" (or more correctly "vassals") have given Ukraine almost all their weapons and none of them fancy taking on the Russian in a face-to-face fight. It's not just, as Trump has said, that The US's allies would not support them if the US were attacked, it is more that they COULD NOT support them if they WANTED to. Since the US is always "spoiling for a fight", very few of them would feel justified in supporting them or would fancy supporting them!
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  58. A safe bet!
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  59.  @teakkaye5364  Wishful thinking!
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  60. 2:45 "Crises and Events" These are all made by the USA.
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  61. 1: 58 This is not really a correct assessment of the situation, The "dwindling" supplies are not caused by lack of interest on the part of the Collective West(CW). The "Dwindle" is caised by the CW running out of armarments to send to the Ukrainians. Over the past decades the arms industries of the European countries, have largely been taken over by the US arms companies (Rationalization) and closed down to prevent them competing, with the result, that the manufacturing capacity has greatly diminished from what it used to be. Another cause, is the energy to drive these industries and a lot of the raw materials has been sourced from Russia and a lot of the supply chains have been sent to China to avoid making greenhouse gases in Europe and the USA. Further, the CW's arms industries are run like almost all Western industries, by accountants and as a result, anything that was not particularly profitable, was either closed down and sold off or diverted into making something more profitable. So things like 155 mm shells, which were run-of-the-mill products, that fetched a not very high price and no "excitement" and for which, in the years of peace, following the Soviet collapse, there was only a small market, are now hardly made in the CW at all. New machine tools, needed for making shells, would need to be made anew and the majority of machine tools are currently made in China. To make things like shells you need skilled workers, skilled inspectors, tightly controlled factories, skilled engineers, and a whole gamut of other skills. Without these, you will lose whole factories, in a large puff of smoke. So, it will take time to rebuild the CW's capacity. It might be much better, quicker and cheaper to negotiate a complete settlement and a comprehensive peace treaty, that would give everyone real security, so we could get on with the real, pressing problems we have that need world cooperation.
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  62. 0:34 How did the US "Know" that it was ISIS that committed the attack, within 55 minutes of the attack taking place?
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  63.  @corvanna4438  The Russians have at least as much say as the inhabitants of most of the Collective West. In the UK, for example we cannot chose the Head of State. The European leaders are not elected. Who voted for Ursula von der Leyen? These are usually refered to as "Governments" and as "Democracies". So, why the difference?
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  64.  @eusebioorru7383  Come disse Shakespeare: o meglio fece dire a Giovanni di Gaunt: "Questa Inghilterra che era vincolata dalle onde del mare, ora è vincolata con macchie d'inchiostro e legami di pergamena marcia". E adesso vero!
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  65.  @farukissa642  Biden, Victoria Nuland, and other warmongers.
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  66. 3:38 The US State Department really does excell at one thing: Euphemisms. No one does it better or even runs them close!
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  67. Úplnú pravdu! Viac Clare Dalys tiež.
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  68.  @jozefhorvat3625  Ďakujem!
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  69. If I had made a F-up like Prigozhin's, I would keep quiet for quite a long time too! It seems he has got off remarkably lightly.
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  70. When have the Russians bombed subways and shelters? Dates and places please.
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  71. Why do you put Victory day in inverted commas? Do you think that the victory over the "Thousand Year Reich" was not a real victory?
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  72.  @owenbruce4120  Are you sure of that? What if the maker forgot to put a label on the missile? And these missiles were fired from an aircraft. In any case, it is quite obvoius who would commit such a crime!
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  73. "EU is blocking Hungary's access to billions of funds over democratic standards" Funnily enough, the criticism of Hungary's "Democratic Standards" comes from Ursala von der Leyen (President of the EU) and Josip Borrell (the FM of the EU) neither of whom was elected! Howzat for doublethink?
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  74. 2:43 The "International Tribunal" was set up on US initiative and the case against China was brought not by the Philippines, but by the USA!
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  75.  @markhirstwood4190  You forgot the Chinese, South East Asian and the Indian contributions to that victory.
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  76.  @kaspertube512  For that bet you don't need money!
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  77. "Israel has not yet acknowledged its role in the attack", Well! There's a great surprise! So who do you think did it? Go On! Have a guess!
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  78. It simply isn't true that Putin declared that Kharkiv was his next target. When asked about the recent attackin that area he said that Kharkiv was not their aim but the aim was to set up a "buffer zone" to stop the Ukrainians from shelling Belgorod and other civilian areas.
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  79. There is no evidence in Russian statements, to suggest that the Russians want more than they have stated at the start of their SMO in Ukraine. Western "leaders" are forever trying to whip up fear, to make their populations willing to go along with their daft plans. One of the "Daft Plans" was provoking Russia into a war in Ukraine and using that as an excuse to place numerous sanctions on Russia, with a view to causing "Regime Change" (Otherwise known as "Color Revolution) in Moscow. I say "Daft" because it was based on wishful thinking, not on reality and it is hurting Europe very badly and shows no sign of achieving any of its objects.
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  80. 1:47 You call that statement by Blinken "Criticism?" That is not even a "slap on the wrist"! Milk and water is strong stuff compared to that!
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  81. And in "Alice" too, either In "In Wonderland" or in "Through the Looking Glass", I forget which. "Fury said to a mouse That he met in the house: "Come let's have a trial. I've nothing to do." Said the mouse to the cur: "Such a trial dear Sir, With no judge and no jury Would be wasting our breath." "Oh! I'll be judge! I'll be jury!" Said cunning old Fury: I'll try the whole case And condemn you to death!"
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  82. What white phosphorus attacks by the Russians? Why isn't Zelensky complaining to the OPCW? I'm sure they would love to hear from him!
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  83. Because Zelensky is a head of state.
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  84.  @kiprotichngetich8490  So why isn't Chicago helpingUkraine?
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  85. Let's hope you are right! (I would however, bet you are wrong!)
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  86. 1:46 "of recent attacks against coalition forces in Syria" NONE of which were there legally. IMHO the Iranians should dish out the same treatment to them, as they gave to the base in Ein Assad, Iraq, a few months back.
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  87. As far as I am aware, no NATO country has ever asked a referendum if the country wants to be in NATO. I wonder Why? (Sarcasm.)
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  88. Presumably, the Pentagon always mounts an operation "to trace the source of the leaks" every time someone "invents false documents"? (Sarcasm.)
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  89. 3:07 It is not just a "Rift between the Democrats and Republicans" that has crippled effort to fund the War in Ukraine, it is also the huge, balooning debt that the US has and the continuing de-dollarization that is being carried out by numerous central banks.
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  90.  @sujok-acupuncture9246  It has been saved? This must be some new meaning for the word "Saved"!
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  91. What is point of negotiating with people who continually break treaties? How can you negotiate with people who do not mean what they say? What is the point of talking with people who talk peace and go away to prepare the next poke in your eye? It is a waste of time and the Chinese are buzzy. They will waste a certain amount of time and after that they are just not interested. They hear what the USG says and they see what the USG does and they decided some time ago that the actions were a more reliable guide than the words. So they have taken the actions of the USG as the guide to their own and disregard the fine words as just so much froth.
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  92. \\\it's just a "rounding error".
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  93. Don't worry! The Chinese do not forget.
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  94. A likely story! British intelligence? Where's 007 when you need him?
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  95. If anyone thinks that Russia wanted this war, they are delusional or they have not studied the history and have been believing the lying MSM. NATO worked very hard to provoke Russia into this invasion. Right up to the last moment they were not sure that they would succeed. In order to do it, they massacred 14,000 Russian-speaking Ukrainians, between Feb 2014 and Feb 2022.
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  96.  @MeowMeow6118a  I sometimes use "USAmerican" just to be clear.
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  97.  @A_Derpy_NINJA  " The drone was no where actual Russian territory." & the Russians did not shoot it down.
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  98.  @atomiss6595  " IT IS A CRIME TO HELP NAZIS." Which is what the Collective West has been doing in Ukraine since well before 2014 and continues to do today.
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  99. This is all pure projection: it is the US that was not satisfied with the status quo. It was not the Beijing government which kept on provoking the US over the Taiwan issue, it was the US government which kept egging on the small separatist movement in Taiwan to edge ever loser to a declaration of independence. It was the US that kept trying to get the Taipei regime, accepted as a National Government in such bodies as the UN. It was the US that kept sending more and more senior officials to Taipei. It was the US that stationed troops in Taiwan, not the Chinese. So accusing the Beijing government of "upsetting the "Status Quo", is simply inverting the truth. It's quite Orwellian, in fact.
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  100.  @DK-ev9dg  I can see that. I just think it is a good idea to ask people to justify what they say, when I think their statements are unjustified by facts.
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  101.  @sunnymitra6372  Worse than banning Russian, in the "liberated" cities, they are using Russia-speaking as determining whether someone is a traitor or not!
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  102.  @pup6728  Yes, but they are NOT an "Independent Country"! Any fool can see that!
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  103. Zelensky is a puppet. The war is not his fault. You might as well blame Mr Punch for attacking Mrs Punch or the Policeman!
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  104. 2:18 I have a suggestion for Stoltenberg: How about a situation where everybody agreed to keep within their own borders and avoid building up enough arms or the sort of arms that threatens their neighbours' security? It would be much cheaper and much less scary. It would harm nobody.
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  105. Correction! It's either bought or blackmailed.
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  106. 2:50 "Austin said he authorized the retaliatory strikes at the direction of President Biden." Which means that both of them are War Criminals.
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  107. 2:51 The war began in 2014. The SMO began in 2022. The UAF have been shelling Donetsk civilians since shortly after the Maidan coup.
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  108.  @robertdlucas7418  I don't know about "slowly".
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  109. 0:59 Two men who obviously like each other. Refreshing to see them give each other a firm handshake, rather than the, oh so sweet, hugs and kisses, we see between Zelensky and the other European leaders.
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  110.  @warrenweaver6664  No, you're still putting the blame in the wrong place. Since the Maidan events of 2014, the Ukraine's real government has been centred in Washington DC. Zelensky is no more in control of the Ukrainian government's policies than Mr Punch is in control of his actions. There is a small but very powerful clique in Washington that has determined the USG's policies on Russia for many decades and still does. They are sometimes refered to as "the Deep State" and sometimes as the "Permanent State". Whatever you may call them, they are not up for election. The most prominent, visible, representative of this group is Victtoria (Cookies) Nuland. They are responsible for the ring of bases around the USSR and now around Russia and China. It is not clear who started the Korean War, but they have been responsible for the Cold War and almost all of the hot wars since.
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  111.  @linkmeforfun  Agreed.
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  112. As the Russians target military targets, most of the damage to civilian housing and shopping centres, is caused by S-300 missiles and the like, which have missed their target. So, if Ukraine is very short of anti-aircraft missiles, the Ukrainian civilians should be a bit safer.
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  113. Yes! Quite remarkable! Isn't it?
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  114. Я не вчера родился!
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  115. 1:48 "Washington in general has rejected diplomacy" NO! You are understating this. Ukraine and Russia almost negotiated a peace a year ago back, in Istanbul, but Washington sent Boris Johnson to tell Zelensky that, that was not allowed. 2:50 "War Fatigue"? You're joking! They are running out of weapons to send! Their great fear, is that Ukraine will drain the Collective West's arsenals to the point that they would have totally inadequate stocks to respond to a Russian attack if it happened. They still have some weapons, but they want them to use on China!
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  116. 2:15 How do you know that Trumps accusations are false. The DoJ has had Hunter Biden's laptop since for ever and has done nothing about it. No investigation at all. So how can you be certain that the accusations are "False"?
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  117.  @maxhugen  I have an explanation of why the Ukrainians think or at any rate thought that they had shot down 7 Kinzhals, The Kinzhal has an electronic system on board which makes it look to radar as though there are six other Kinzhals coming as well as the real one. The Patriot crew saw this and fired off a couple of dozen missiles and only one Kinzhal arrived, so, of course, they assumed that they "must have" destroyed all the rest! The Kinzhal is a powerful weapon, but it will not determine the course of the war. It just helps the Russians destroy some things more easily than they could without it.
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  118. Making and worse, using such ammunition, should be made a Crime Against Humanity. Yes, I know it is very effective against tanks but when used, it poisons the ground around where it is used more or less for ever and ever. Food grown in the area causes stillbirths and hideously deformed children and other animals.
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  119. 2:29 US armed forces are operating in Syria illegally. They have no right to be there, they are there stealing oil and stealing and burning wheat crops. Complaining that Su-35 violated coalition airspace in Syria is like a burglar complaining that a policeman hurt him when he arrested him in his victim's house! This complaint shows the disgusting arrogance with which the US treats the rest of the World.
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  120. The joint efforts of Israel's allies did not "defeat" the Iranian attack. They destroyed the drones and the cruise missiles that were designed to engage the Israeli defences (Which they did.) but faied to stop the 9 Iranian ballistic missiles which hit the targets they were aimed at. None of the Iranian ballistic missiles were intercepted. This looks, to me at least, more like a "successful attack" than a "defeat".
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  121. If Ukraine carries on as it is going it will lose many thousands more. It will not change the ending, it will just delay it. So what is the point of continuing? To please the US? Is that a good enough reason?
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  122. I wonder, can someone please explain to me what the essential difference is between how the Germans treated Jews in the period 1933 to 1945 and how the Jewish governmnet is treating Palestinians now?
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  123.  @Dimitris-td5kb  Yes! The next step is "Eurobonds to support Ukraine" and after that Eurotaxation "to pay the interest on the Eurobonds"! You have been warned! This is what sparked the 1776 American Revolt against the British crown: "Taxation without Representation."
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  124. "Why?" is a good question. I think the most probable reason is that they are being blackmailed or threatened. Otherwise, alternatively, it looks as though they have been bought. I suppose, it could be either or both. We know that the US uses threats to get the votes it wants in the UN.
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  125. Assuming someone survives!
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  126. Having dumps of fuel, ammunitions, vehicles, artillery and the like is MUCH TRICKIER than it was during the cold war because each of them will be known and will have a missile (Or several missiles) to itself, which in the event of a war will be despatched..
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  127. The British government must be either the most ignorant bunch of clowns who ever posed as statesmen or they must be evil, almost beyond belief! If the problem is ignorance : they do not understand the dangers to the WHOLE WORLD of sending depleted uranium rounds to Ukraine. When the war is over, who blew up which tank will be of interest to very few people, mostly to relatives of the Tank crews. However, Ukraine is (or was) the "Breadbasket" of Europe. In fact, it sends food all over the World. DU ammunition is effective in destroying tanks, true, but when the round hits the tank, the depleted uranium catches fire, the smoke blows around and eventually settles in the soil. Food grown there, absorbs some of this uranium and when it is eaten by animals (including humans, of course) it lodges in the animal's cells like a time bomb waiting to go off. When this uranium is eaten by a pregnant mother, it can be incorporated in the baby. When one of these uranium atoms decays (Explodes) it can cause a mutation resulting in a stillbirth or worse, the birth of a hideously malformed child. Rishi Sunak and his Minister for Defence (There's a misnomer if ever I heard one!) are condemning the mothers of all countries that buy food from Ukraine to this monstrous possibility. If anyone thinks this is alarmist propaganda, they should ask the Iraqis or the countries of the former Yugoslavia. If they don't know this, they are so ignorant that they should be nowhere near the "levers of Power". If they know this and go ahead with this diabolical plan, they must be some of THE MOST EVIL people who have ever lived. It is extraordinary to me that there is so little outcry over this announcement! Extraordinary too, that Putin has not spelled out the danger of this move, in detail. It is not "just" a nuclear escalation, even if it does not result in a nuclear war (which it might) it condemns countless generations of children to the possibility, the probability of being grossly deformed or cancerous and condemns their mothers to grossly heightened worry around giving birth. This problem will not go away for HUNDREDS OF GENERATIONS. The uranium in these shells, has a very long half-life. In short, this announcement, is telling the World that one of the greatest "Crimes Against Humanity", is in the process of being committed.
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  128.  @ike637  Thanks.
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  129.  @crescencianominas2387  Yeah! Right!
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  130.  @paulchen2224  Thanks!
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  131.  @navneet8269  Right!
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  132. Ukraine has lost the war. There is no way round this fact. Prolonging the war is just wasting lives.
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  133. 2:34 Wrong! The war did not begin in 2022, it began i 2014 and by 2022 the Ukrainian government forces had killed 10,000 Russian speaking Ukrainians. It was to protect the rest, that the Russians launced their "special military operation" in 2022.
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  134. ONLY 23 World leaders? Oh dear! What a flop! Only 23! And how many were represented by ministers? How many summits outside the UN have as many World Leaders as that?
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  135. Ha ha! He is still far too optimistic! Does he really think the Russians would settle for as little as lifting SOME OF the sanctions? I doubt the Russians will settle for les than comprehensive security guarantees for EVERYONE in Europe and abolition of all sanctions. It would not surprise me if they stuck out for the abolition of NATO.
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  136. Disposal is not a great problem. Any competent chemist could do it, given a few facilities.
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  137. People in NATO countries have frequently blamed NATO for causing the War in Ukraine. Hardly surprising! Considering how hard NATO worked at so doing. From 2014 to February 2022 the NATO trained and led Ukraine army, attacked the Russian-speaking provinces of Ukraine, killing 14,000 of them in the process, about 10,000 of those being civilians. Then in Feb 2022 they announced that they were going to clear the Russian-speaking provinces (The Donbas) of all Russian-speakers either by driving them out or by killing them. This left the Russian government the choice of either: A) going to the rescue of their fellow Russian-speakers or standing by and letting them be killed or driven out and seeing a NA*I-led, NATO-affiliated government in Ukraine or B) going to war with NATO. The first choice would have been domestically politically impossible for the Russian government, the second choice looked (To many Western observers and particularly to NATO strategists:) suicidal. As it turned out, the Russians were not so weak, corrupt, incompetent, rebellious, inefficient, badly led, badly trained, badly-armed, etc., etc. as they had been portrayed in Western propaganda. The expected easy victory for "the largest NATO-trained and armed army in Europe", has failed to materialize and we are now looking at a possible Russian victory.
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  138. It seems to me that Robert Clarke is moving in the right direction, but he has not gone far enough. When Ukraine and its Collective Western backers have run out of the weapons they are prepared to send to Ukraine, the Russian will still have plenty of soldiers and plenty of all sorts of weapons and they will still have air superiority. Even if Ukraine stops fighting, what is to stop the Russians? Will the Russians stop? Why would they? To my mind the Collective West looks like an inexperienced gambler who is losing and cannot stop gambling, because he still hopes for "something to turn up". He also cannot stop, because if he does, he will be admitting that he is stupid and no one will trust him ever again. Then again, if the House wins, he will be bankrupt and he cannot think what he will do if that happens.
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  139. What stupid arrogance! They think they can just make up the rules as they go along! Really, it is no wonder that, as Sy Hersh is apparently reporting, members of the military and the Intelligence community are getting fed up with the level of amateurism displayed by this White House!
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  140. 2:40 Isn't it really remarkable how easily Israel can bully the US, France and Germany into supporting its atrocities. I wonder how the Israelis do it? Could it have something to do with JE's little book?
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  141. 3:01 "However Italy's FM Antonio Tajani said it was unacceptable to equate the Israelii democratic government with the Hamas terror group". What a stupid remark to make! The question before the ICC is not "Who or what are they?" but "What are they doing?"
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  142.  @ihs51  &?
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  143.  @MrAbhix7  They are occupying. That's what colonial powers do.
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  144.  @mjaybain2016  "Russia already has them" Where is the reference? I don't believe you. I think the Russians have more sense.
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  145. The Ukrainians keep on accusing Russia of damaging themselves. You can believe them if you like.
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  146. Why does the Collective West have NO great men (or women)? It puzzles me. We used to have.
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  147. The fighting over the time since February 2022 has not been "deadlocked". It has been a series of Ukrainian attacks on Russian defensive positions, which has led to continuous heavy Ukrainian losses of men and machines. The Russians too lost some men and some machines, but as they were mostly defending positions, rather than trying to capture new ones, they lost far less than did the Ukrainians. The results are now showing, the Ukrainians are running out of almost everything and, unable to defeat the Russian military, are resorting to terrorism. This will not win them the war. Neither the military war nor the media war.
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  148. Yes! So do I. Not "Funny, amusing", but "funny, peculiar". Do these people never consider what they sound like? "Don't do as I do! Do as I say!!" Or else! Ray McGovern thinks they are "crazy" and I am inclined to agree.
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  149. As always.
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  150. 2:56 "NATO remains ready and able to defend all allies" True, Ukraine is not, formally, a NATO ally but, it is a NATO proxy and at the moment, NATO is unable to defend Ukraine, because it cannot scrape together the arms that Ukraine needs. So Stoltenberg is talking wishful thinking, rather than facts. One of the MOST IMPORTANT results of the war in Ukraine is that the MYTH of NATO invincibility, has been shot to pieces by the Russians.
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  151. India is not part of the BRI.
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  152. The problem with your suggestion is the Russian position is that: the first use of a nuclear weapon against them will trigger WW3.
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  153. Russia has been "running out of missiles" since Feb 24th 2022. Any day now!
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  154. This video "explains" nothing. It is informative but tells us .nothing that is not available elsewhere. Why are the Russians shutting down the Jewish agency? What has gone sour in the relationship? Is it retaliation for the Israelis' attacking Syria?
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  155. I saw a video yesterday that said that the US is sending more troops to Taiwan! This, they say is to "increase stability in the Taiwan Straits" (!) This is such an Orwellian abuse of language! Truly, they must be out of their tiny minds! Or they must think that everyone else is stupid.
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  156. 0:49 This proves that Jens Stoltenberg is human! Vide the saying: "Hope springs eternal in the human breast!"
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  157.  @ilttpvvm  No. It's not just like. If you notice the Russian strikes on Ukrainian citities are aimed at military targets and cause remarkably few civilian casualties and often those are caused by the Ukrainians shooting down missiles and the wreckage landing on civilian structures. In more than two years of bombardment, the Russians have caused fewer civilian casualties than the Israelis caused in the first two weeks in Gaza. The Ukrainians by contrast choose civilian targets, e.g. central Donetsk and central Belgorod and the POW camp in Donetsk.
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  158.  @arikotiranta2689  I do not understand what you mean.
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  159.  @reijoheikkila4578  He menevät sotaan miellyttääkseen isäntiään Washington DC:ssä
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  160.  @georgearden7075  No. It's not just like. If you notice the Russian strikes on Ukrainian citities are aimed at military targets and cause remarkably few civilian casualties and often those are caused by the Ukrainians shooting down missiles and the wreckage landing on civilian structures. In more than two years of bombardment, the Russians have caused fewer civilian casualties than the Israelis caused in the first two weeks in Gaza. The Ukrainians by contrast choose civilian targets, e.g. central Donetsk and central Belgorod and the POW camp in Donetsk.
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  161.  @dahighalvl  Thanks.
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  162.  @georgearden7075  No. Are you? Why do you ask?
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  163. ​ @fabianschrotter  The difference is that they have military targets in them. These are what are hit, when the missiles are not shot down on the way to its target. When that does happen, the wreckage sometimes falls on civilian buildings and civilians are injured or killed. You may not have noticed, but frequently when the Russians attack with many dozens of missile only very few civilians are reported killed. In the course of the SMO fewer civilians have been killed in Ukraine than have been killed in the first two weeks in Gaza. The targets in Donetsk and Belgorod were strictly civilian targets except for the camp housing Ukrainian PoWs! Another cause of civilian casualties in Ukraine is the S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, which miss their target and fall back to earth. These are the cause of the "Russsians using S-300 missiles to attack civilian buildings" reports, even when the building concerned are way beyond the range of S-300 missiles.
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  164.  @georgearden7075  ​ The difference is that they have military targets in them. These are what are hit, when the missiles are not shot down on the way to its target. When that does happen, the wreckage sometimes falls on civilian buildings and civilians are injured or killed. You may not have noticed, but frequently when the Russians attack with many dozens of missile only very few civilians are reported killed. In the course of the SMO fewer civilians have been killed in Ukraine than have been killed in the first two weeks in Gaza. The targets in Donetsk and Belgorod were strictly civilian targets except for the camp housing Ukrainian PoWs! Another cause of civilian casualties in Ukraine is the S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, which miss their target and fall back to earth. These are the cause of the "Russsians using S-300 missiles to attack civilian buildings" reports, even when the building concerned are way beyond the range of S-300 missiles.
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  165.  @ilttpvvm  ​ The difference is that they have military targets in them. These are what are hit, when the missiles are not shot down on the way to its target. When that does happen, the wreckage sometimes falls on civilian buildings and civilians are injured or killed. You may not have noticed, but frequently when the Russians attack with many dozens of missile only very few civilians are reported killed. In the course of the SMO fewer civilians have been killed in Ukraine than have been killed in the first two weeks in Gaza. The targets in Donetsk and Belgorod were strictly civilian targets except for the camp housing Ukrainian PoWs! Another cause of civilian casualties in Ukraine is the S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, which miss their target and fall back to earth. These are the cause of the "Russsians using S-300 missiles to attack civilian buildings" reports, even when the building concerned are way beyond the range of S-300 missiles.
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  166.  @fabianschrotter  Electricity is used to move arms around.
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  167.  @fabianschrotter  That does not seem to be the case in Ukraine, The Russians did not use cluster munitions even against military targets until after the Ukrainians started using them having been given them by the US because they had run out of HE shells.
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  168. 33:20 What were the US bases doing in Syria? They are there illegally. To Have ILLEGAL BASES and launch airstrikes in another country (3:25) and then to talk about a third country "breaking International Law" (2:25)is both hypocritical and ridiculous!
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  169. When you make an agreement with someone and then don't perform your part of the bargain, what reason would they have to continue with their side of it?
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  170. Zelensky's suggestion of "the same sort of protection for Ukraine", suggest a complete innumeracy on his part. Ukraine has an area of 603,550 square km while Israel has only 21,637. So one can assume, to the first order of magnitude, that it would take 30 times as much equipment to provide the same degree of protection to Ukraine, as that enjoyed by Israel. This equipment does not exist.
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  171. "Xi and Putin are getting together to do damage". Naiughty, naughty Xi and Naughty Putin! Of course, the USA would never do anything like that! Would they? (Ask the 50 or so countries they have invaded since 1950.)
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  172. Join the club!
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  173. There is no "stalemate" in this very bloody war. This is a propaganda term, used by the CW media to disguise the fact that the Russians have been winning for a long time. They have not, however, been trying to take as much territory as they could have taken. They stated their policy at the start of the SMO in February 2022, and it did not include conquering Ukraine. Their aims were stated as : 1) Demilitarising Ukraine. 2) De-Nazifying Ukraine. 3) Making sure that Ukraine was neutral and stayed outside of NATO. Nothing about conquering Territory. It is characteristic of CW thinking that "Territory is important, people don't matter". The Russians think differently.
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  174. 3:04 Taiwan has been, in fact, a US protectorate since 1949. There, I fixed that for you! "Self-governing" is a bit of immaginative spin.
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  175.  @rjohansen9486  This statement of yours is the exact opposite of the truth.
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  176.  @medusaslair  Bullseye!
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  177.  @rjohansen9486  I said not so. Russia did not start the war in 2014. In fact Russia worked very hard to be friendly toward Ukraine even after the Maidan coup. They gave Ukrain a lot of coal free of charge and gas at a very low priice. After the Maidan Coup, Poroshenko was president for some years. I don't remember the exact date when Zelensky was elected. The War was provoked by the Collective West, because they wanted an excuse to put a whole faft of sanctions on Russia, which they did, thinking that Russia was in such a poor state that the war and the sanctions together, would cause a revolt in Russia, which would topple the hated Putin Regime.
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  178. In my honest opinion, anyone making DU ammunition, after the terrible experience of Iraq and Serbia is guilty of a Crime Against Humanity. The US sending DU ammunition to Europe is another vile attack upon all European people now and for the long-term future. The use of these weapons will contaminate the soil of what has, in the past, been dubbed "The Breadbasket of Europe" and make sure that anyone who eats food grown in this area will be at risk of producing deformed children. In general I am against the Death Penalty, but for people making, advocating, sending or using such weapons, I would think it highly appropriate. Humans, after all have the right to defend themselves and these weapons are not, cannot be, aimed at anyone in particular, but attack humanity in general.
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  179. Quoting "Bild" as a source for a story is a bit like quoting the British paper "The Sun" as a source.
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  180. What this means is that Ukraine intends to blow up this chemical plant.
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  181. You say that "Russia says it is willing to negotiate, but (only) on its own terms" This implies that the terms they are setting are unreasonable. You should have said what these terms are, but you didn't, so I'll say what they are: "We will negotiate any time, but we will not accept preconditions."
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  182.  @teakkaye5364  Your figures are contradicted by, of all organisations, the BBC!
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  183.  @henrikstephenson2246  Where is this free world of which you speak? In this world, there is nothing to make the MSM tell the truth and they do so only when it suits them or the government., which is "not very often"!
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  184. Before the SMO started, Russia asked the Collective West for talks to settle the collective security of Europe. I.e. talks about how to give everyone in Europe security (Including the Russians!) and the West refused to discuss it. They treated the request with disdain! The Collective West wanted this war, because they believed their own propaganda and thought the Russians were no match for the Ukrainian army. (The largest, NATO-trained army in Europe, with seven years of battle-hardening and all the weapons it needed to defeat the Russians.)
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  185. "Yeah, Sorry, son. We don't wear that kinda thing round here!"
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  186. What he "forgot" to mention is, that it was Israel and the US that set up Hamas, to undermine support for the PLO. He also did not mention, that the other terrorist organizations he did list (& many other similar groups.) were set up by the CIA, probably, with Israeli help. It's a bit like Mary Shelly's story of the Frankenstein Monster.
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  187. 2:18 "Britain will not support..." Is Britain a party to the conflict? Who asked Britain's opinion?
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  188. About "Chinese Aggression": Have a look at (If you can find a copy) of Nehru's autobiography, first edition. Then compare it with the third edition and you will find that both have a map of India and a part of China as end-covers. The difference is, that in the third edition, the "border" between India and China has shifted several hundred miles North. There were no negotiations on the subject in the interval between the two editions.
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  189. Good to see HT being objective, fair and balanced in its reporting.
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  190. Correction! You have been funding, arming, training and supplying them since 2014! Your Angela Merkel helped to fool the Russians into not attacking them earlier, so that these NAZ*s could get more arms and more training.
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  191. This Ben Wallace geezer is such a fantasist that, probably, the whole story is fiction from start to finish. If not it is probably exaggerated out of all resemblance to reality.
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  192. Sounds like a "repair job!!
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  193.  @Maximilian0011  1946. It has been going downhill ever since. And, to be truthful, that government left a lot to be desired!
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  194. Can anyone think of a more cack-handed display of incompetent "diplomacy" than the recent (Last few years) US effort to "drive a wedge" between Russia and China, while at the same time, attacking both?!
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  195. 1:22 "Ukraine said Donetsk witnessed over 1800 Russian strikes on Mat 24, killing three people." Which proves that Russia is deliberately trying to avoid killing civilians.
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  196.  @lilidezman624  That was sensible. They would have had no chance against the Wehrmacht at that time.
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  197. Britain telling China to live up to its international obligations, while it itself, is defying the international court over its ethnic cleansing of Diego Garcia? Howzat for Hypocrisy and double-think?
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  198. That is upside-down and inside-out! It was the US that wanted Ukraine to fight Russia. It was the USA that stage-managed the Maidan coup, and having prepared the Ukrainian army for seven years convinced itself that the Ukrainians could easily defeat Russia. When, in March-April 2022 the Ukrainians looked set to settle with the Russians, the Warmongers in Washinton and London, sent Boris Johnson to talk them out of it, because they still thought, that with their help, the Ukrainian army could easily defeat the Russians. Partly, they fooled themselves that the Russians were an undisciplined rabble, who would run away when they saw the Ukrainians coming, that the Russians were badly led, stupid, unwilling to fight, disorganised, had incompetent officers and NCOs, poor arms, old outdated weapons, no reserves of shells and missiles and other things of a like nature. They believed these things, probably, because they had read this sort of thing for years in the MSM, who were parroting what their leaders said! If the Western Intelligence organizations knew different, they did not say so, because their bosses did not want to hear that sort of thing!
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  199.  @kaspertube512  And in spite of all that, the Russians keep winning. more fighting , less talking.
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  200.  @rionijam727  He has enemies for mentors.
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  201.  @rionijam727  They already did.
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  202. Seeing that the regime in Kiev has been bombarding Donetsk city (A completely Civilian target) since 2014, it is a bit "Rich" for Zelensky to cry "Terrorism" about Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that helps move troops and other military supplies around.
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  203. I wonder why the Europeans are are having second thoughts about putting more sanctions on Russia! (Sarcasm.) Could it be that they feel that the US conned them into giving up cheap reliable supplies of Russian natural gas, oil and coal, in exchange for unreliable supplies of US LNG, at up to five times the price, by persuading them to "sanction" Russia? Could it be that they don't feel the need to put another bullet into their own feet? Could it be that they did not understand that the purpose of the sanctions was not only to collapse the Russian economy but also to de-industrialize Europe as well? Even after Jake Sullivan gloated that it was a "great opportunity" for the USA after they sabotaged the NS pipelines? Surely, they realize it now, even if it is a bit late in the day to do so. There is an old saying: "If you find you have dug yourself into a hole, stop digging!" Maybe they have decided to stop digging!
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  204. Extreme reight sort of Nazis!
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  205. It is not just that the US has "lost all credibility"! It has that, to be sure, but looking at the US supporting the wiping out of Palestinian men, wonen and children, by the thousand; other countries think: "That could be us!" "This country is in the grip of utterly heartless monsters!" "Just listen to them supporting that and, at the same time, talking about how they support Human Rights! How do they do it?"
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  206. If you can't beat them, then negotiate. It standsd to reason. This HT report, shows that Ukraine was betrayed by Boris Johnson when he advised them not to negotiate, because the Collective West would support them "For as long as it takes" (Remember that much-repeated phrase?) with as many weapons as they needed, to acheive a decisive victory over the Russians. The trouble was, he did not know what he was talking about! He believed his own side's propaganda.
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  207. "Russia's first notable gain in months." This remark is characteristic of a reactionary mindset. Reactionaries always overvalue things, such as territory and undevalue people. The Russians announced at the start of the SMO, that they had 3 aims. 1) to demilitarise Ukraine. 2) To de-nazify Ukraine. 3) to prevent Ukraine joining NATO. Over the course of the last nearly two years they have largely de-militarised, not only Ukraine, but also drained the military stockpiles of the collective West. They have killed a large number of Ukrainian "Extreme right-wingers" (Particularly in Adviivka, where they were forced into the fight, which they have mostly kept out of!) These are both wins for the Russians. If they want territory they can now get it much more easily than they could before the "wins" mentioned above. Their third aim is not yet acheived, but it is pretty certain now that it will be.
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  208. The difference is in WHO they lost to. In Vietnam they lost to the Vietnamese, in Afghanistan, to the Taliban, in Cuba to the Cubans, but in Ukraine to the Russians. The Vietnamese, the Taliban, the Cubans are not a menace to the US but the Russians? Ha! That is a Good Question!
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  209. This "series of failed measures" was not imposed "in response to the Ukrainian war". No. This series of sanctions was dreamed up well before the war was provoked and the Collective West the War as an excuse to impose the sanctions. You can see that this was the case by the timing. How long would it take to prepare hundreds of sanctions including cutting Russia out of the SWIFT bank-clearing scheme? Less than 24 hours? I don't think so ! But that is how long it took after the Russians entered into the war that was going on in Donbas, to imposes these. You have to ask: Who benefits from the mess that Europe finds itself in?" Who benefits from the trebling of the price of gas? Who benefits from the destruction of the Nordsteam pipelines? Does Russia benefit from any of this? No. Who benefits from the huge expenditur on weapons in Ukraine? So, work out for yourself, who is behind all this. It will not strain your brain!
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  210. I think the mesage for Netanyahoo is "Mene mene tekel upharsin" (Or some such!)
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  211. Seems to me that what Putin says is straightforward and common sense. The only surprise in what he says, is how different it is to what we are told he says, by the MSM. When you listen to what he says, it makes sense and it is clear that he is in full control of his senses and he does not appear to be hiding anything. Furthermore, he does not evade questions, he answers them. The widely spread idea in the West that he is on some drive to conquer the World, does not bear examination. (To me it looks like what the psychiartists call "projection". I.e. thinking that other people are thinking or doing what you yourself are doing or thinking. Like a man planning to murder his wife, imagining that his wife is planning to murder him.) In the case of Russia planning to conquer the World, one has to ask: "Who has about 900 military bases all over the World and why? Who has the largest military budget in the World BY FAR ?" (Bigger than the next 9 or 10 countries put together and some of those are allies!) Who has attacked and largely wrecked, at least 50 countries since 1950. Is it Russia? No, it isn't. Russia has one of the lowest population densities in the World (About 30 times less than the UK.) it has no need of more land. So why do so many people in the West think that Russia is on some drive to conquer the rest of Europe and after that the rest of the World? It is because, that is what they are told, over and over again. That repetition is a fact, but however many times a lie is repeated it does not make it true.
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  212. 0:49 Quite clearly, The USA has no objection to extra-judicial killings, so its attack on India over alledged Indian government assassins working in the USA is a cover story. The real problem, thr real reason the USG is trying to embarrass Modi, is much more likely to be the Indian participation in BRICS.
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  213. 2:45 I hold no brief for Lindsey Graham, but he has really shown up Lloyd Austin as too cowardly to come out and make the "Politiccaly incorrect" statement, that dropping atomic bombs on surrendering Japan, was a monstrous, unforgivable War Crime, though it is pretty clear that that is what he would like to say. As he doutless knows, the intention, behind the decision to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was to frighten the USSR. To shorten the war, so that the USSR did not invade Japan, which they were about to do.
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  214. Sounds as though the former PM knows what he is talking about. Does anyone doubt that the war strted in 2014 was the work of the USA (Victoria Nuland) and Ukrainian fascists?
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  215. 1:23 "US State Department said China has threatened the security of Europe & not just Ukraine." Do these people ever think about what they are saying? General Wesley Clark recounts how he was told before 911, that the "US was going to invade seven countries in five years". If that isn't "threatening the security of the World" I wonder what would be?
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  216. 2:03 If Putin deserves an arrest warrant on a charge of "War Crimes" (Evacuating Ukrainian children from a war zone! How evil is that?) then, every living US president and most UK prime ministers, deserve one too, for much worse war crimes.
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  217. This is all so silly! It looks as though none of this had been thought about before turning down flat, Russia's request for negotiations over a comprhensive security architecture for Europe! Really! It is a bit late to start worrying about it now! Did the Collective West provoke this war between Ukraine and Russia with no thought for the consequences, if it all went South? These are our Leaders? I wonder why?
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  218. 3:59 Since when has Poland moved to the Arctic (Or is, perhaps, moved to the South pole?) It must have done one or the other to have snow that deep!
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  219. "ICC prosecuterKarim Khan said he had reasonable grounds to believe that the five men bear 'criminal responsibility' for alleged war crimes." Yes, considering that Israeli forces have been bombing civilian apartments, hospitals, schools and other civilian infrastructure and at the same time, expressing openly genocidalintentions towards thei opponents, he has VERY "reasonable grounds"! In fact, he would have lost all credibility, over most of the World, had he said anything else.
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  220. "As historians will look back at the days when USA run the world as the sole hegemonic power it would be remembered as a time of great failures as USA succeeded to stabilize no region in the world and caused unnecessary death, destruction, caos and misery everywhere it went on the so called benign missions of liberal hegemonic wars to stablish democracies. " No, they won't. They will understand that these were not failure of good intentions. These were successes of really evil people, who wanted their arms (and other industries) to thrive at the expense of the horrific suffering of countless millions of other people. This was NOT the failure of good intentions, this was the fulfillment of an EVIL money making dream, which succeeded beyond the dreams of avarice!
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  221. @yamudda364 It is only the MSM and Western politicians that say that the Russians (PUTIN) want to use nuclear weapons. Show me one quote where a member of a Russian government has expressed a desire to use nuclear weapons. If you can!
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  222. "The ICC request (actually the prosecuter's request to the ICC for warrants) for warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders also divided Europe" Along Ethnic lines?
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  223. The difference between the US and Russian forces presence in Syria (Which you seem to be trying to obscure.) is that the Russians were invited to be there, by the internationally recognized Syrian government while the US forces are an invading force, which is doing severe damage to the Syrian people. In particular, they are stealing Syria's oil and Syria's wheat.
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  224. The people who are running the Collective West, based in Washington, care absolutely nothing about ordinary people of any nationality. They do not have hearts only cash registers, or swinging bricks.
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  225.  @johnr.b.murray3417  At a guess, not many.
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  226. What is Borrell talking about? How cold anyone with two braincells to string together see the USA as a "Reliable partner"? The proposition is a joke! Ask the South Vietnamese or, or come to that, the Ukrainians! This "Reliable Partner" has reneged on far more treaties than it has honored. This must be some new, Woke definition of "Reliable".
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  227. 2:57 Biden is trotting out the same old, tired, discredited "Domino Theory" that was being spouted about the war in Viet Nam!
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  228. 1:30 'The US branded it as "unconscionable" accusing Putin of "weaponising food". This is the same US that, last year, burned Syria' s wheat fields just when they were ready to harvest! This is the US that prohibited Australia from supplying wheat to China during "The Great Famine" of the last century. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds!
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  229. The Chinese representative spoke the truth. NATO calls itself a "Defensive Alliance" but in fact, has never defended anyone (Unless you think North Korea started the Korean War) but has only ever attacked countries that the US wanted to conquer, on the flimsiest reasons or false flags. Good for them! It is time that the US were called out on their double-talk and hypocrisy.
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  230. What outrageous Hypocrisy on the part of the US Spokesman! This coming from the government which was/is plotting to assasinate Julian Assange! The government which admits that at least some of its presidents, have a "Kill List" presented to them daily, to decide whether to authourise these assassination or not. The people on these lists have not been charged, much less tried and found guilty. "Don't do as I do! Do as I say!"
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  231. No! Zelensky is but a puppet of the warmongers in the White House and the State Department. Principally those named by Sy Hersh, in his investigation of the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines.
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  232. 0:48 It doesn't look as though he needs to worry! There isn't going to be a Ukrainian victory. Anyway, what evidence does he have that Putin is "Vindictive"? Does he know Putin personally? This is another, like Ben Wallace who has been at school, the university, then an officer and then a defence department employee. What does he know about the real world? What contact has he had with Putin?
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  233. "When Russia failed to keep Ukraine in its orbit" That's a highly spun way of presenting a violent overthrow of the properly elected government by a NATO-backed neo-N*ZI regime!
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  234. FYI, Wang Yi's surname is Wang.
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  235. The West had some diplomats, once upon a time. It seems they have all retired. There was a time, when the West used to have some Great Statesmen. It seems they have all been replaced by evil, mentally sick pygmies.
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  236.  @jayovski82wreckingcrew  Not "Well documented" at all! No one has clearly established who started the Korean War. The "Berlin Blockade" was a put-up-job, if ever there was. Have you read up on "Operation Unthinkable"? Oh! &BTW, thank you for the compliment on my English!
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  237.  @jayovski82wreckingcrew  No.
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  238.  @jayovski82wreckingcrew  " it's not really important who started that whole cold war " If you say so, squire. "I know is that NATO didn't invade Ukraine," No. It staged a "Color Revolution" in Ukraine. Overthrowing the properly elected, pro-Russian government and installing a US Puppet and empowering the existing NA*I militias to take over the Army and stage a genocide, which killed 14,000 by Feb2021 of the Russian-speaking inhabitants of the country.
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  239.  @sean1222221  They ARE running out. Making ordinary common and garden ammo is not profitable enough for the US MIC, so it has been neglected, in favour of really glamourous projects like the F-35, which really brings home the bacon! They have some ammo left, but they want to use that to attack China. The US military budget also has to support 800+ bases all over the World, and a lot of lobbyist and a lot of congress critters and a lot of shareholders which the Russians have not encumbered themselves with.
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  240.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Got a reference for Putin saying that? I don't think so.
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  241.  @luisekjeldsen1515  "Could" is NOT the same as "We are going to".
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  242.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Yes, it makes good sense, if you want to keep a lot of Ukrainian troops away from the Donbas, defending Kiev. The Russians sent about 40,000 troops to near Kiev, nothing like enough to take the city, but enough to keep a large number of Ukrainian troops there to defend the it.
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  243. The US used cluster munitions in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam where they are still killing people. The US has done nothing to clear them up. To make great evil worse, some of them contain plastic pellets, which are almost impossible to find with x-rays, causing immense suffering to those who are unfortunate enough to have them in their flesh.
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  244. "China is also facing flak for its support for war by continuing to trade with Russia". China was facing flak for just not being an American colony before the war in Ukraine broke out. So, What else is new? Come to that, China is also "continuing to trade" with the USA. Isn't that also "supporting the war"? Does the US want the Chinese to stop suppling it with goods? The USA is still buying Russian oil. Isn't that "supporting Russia's war effort"? More "Don't do as I do! Do as I say!!" More of the "Rules Based International Order".Cr*p.
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  245.  @lelanalela7932  More insults to make up for content. Poor you.
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  246. I'll believe they have done it, when Russia and China say that they are satisfied, that they really have.
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  247. Even if there is no proof that the US neocons destroyed the NS pipelines, the circumstantial evidence is so strong that any other explanation is incredible. They said they were going to do it. Not once, not twice but three times! they had the means, the motive, the opportunity the cover while they did it and the Swedes and the Danes and the Germans have investigated and say they know who did it, but refuse to say who that was. (!) If that is unclear, then I don't know what clear is. To cap it all, there is a detailed account of it by a very credible journalist, Seymour Hersh, telling how it was done and by whom and on whose orders.
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  248. NO! Criminally insane. Traitorous. Those terms are more like it.
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  249. 3:30 "Defending our interests" he says. While agreeing to supply Ukraine with DU ammunition, which if used, will contaminate the food coming to the UK! Whether you eat bread made with Ukrainian wheat or pork from pigs fed on Ukrainian beans, YOU ARE AT RISK!
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  250. You raise an important point! When nearly everyone gets their information about the World from "News" outlets that are owned/controlled by about six families; what meaning does the word "democracy" have, in those circumstances?
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  251. If ever one needed proof that the British government is a nest of TRAITORS this announcement is certainly enough!! Making the radioactive rounds is crime enough, poisoning the food coming out of Ukraine to the rest of the World is a huge and vile crime against humanity, including the population of the UK. I suppose it may be possible to sink lower than this, into criminal idiocy, but just at the moment I cannot think how!
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  252. There is no tactic too despicable for the USA to employ. They used Germs against the Koreans and Chinese in the Korean War and supplied anthrax and chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein for use against the Iranians. They staged FF incidents in Syria not so long ago.
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  253. 1:55 "Berlin sees no threat to a peace process in Ukraine (posed) by Ukrainian extremist nationalists" Presumably, this is a case illustrating the old saying: "There are none so blind as those that won't see." Just imagine!! Germans training NAZ* soldiers!!! What a shock!! Who would have thought of such a thing?!?! Do you mean to say that there are real live NAZ*s in Ukraine? Why did nobody warn the German government about that? Oh! Lieber, oh Schatz!
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  254. This is silly! It is so obvious that it was NATO or a NATO member country that it is a no-brainer. The USA said, through its officials, at least three times in public, that it was going to destroy the NS pipelines. They had opportunity to do the sabotage, US and British ships were in the area at the time of the attack. They have the means to carry out such an attack and they had the motive. (Sell expensive US LPG to the Europeans, sabotage the European economy.) To cap it all, you have Liz Truss, British PM sending a message to Biden a minute or so after the blast saying: "It's done!" So you have a "suspect" who has means, motive, capability and opportunity and who has stated clearly that they had the intention and you talk about "suspicion"? Come On, Man!
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  255. Funny to see the Unelected European Rulers accusing the elected (by a landslide) Orban of being "Undemocratic"! Orwellian.
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  256. What is needed by everybody except a very few, though powerful, warmongers, is peace and security treaties, meeting everyone's need for peace. War is such a waste of people and resources! It is the stupidest way of settling arguments. In general, it does not settle arguments it just stores up resentments and postpones the Next War. The Russians submitted their requirements for peace in the months before February '22, but the Western countries led by the Warmongers in the USA and Stoltenberg, would not even discuss the proposals, they wanted WAR. Well, they got war and now they wonder what to do about it. The longer they delay finding a way to stop the war, the worse they will find the Russians' demands are.
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  257. The US army has been "fighting" Al Qaida in Syria for EIGHT YEARS? B*gger! What sort of Army is that? This is the army that is going to fight Russia in Ukraine and China in Taiwan, simultaneously? Really? The US is criticizing Russia for invading Ukraine? I wonder why the countries of the Global South are refusing to back the USA in its fight with Syria and refusing to side with it over Ukraine? Could it just be that they hate doubletalk? And don't trust doubletalkers?
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  258. 2:28 "The NATO chief also said that only a Ukrainian win will result in lasting peace." This is belied by the people in the USA's government, who are saying that they need a win in Ukraine, so that they can prepare for a war against China!
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  259. Trump calls for Europe , which is in dire economic trouble because it followed the US in provoking a war in Ukraine and using it as an excuse to sanction Russia, to spend a thirtieth part of its income on supporting the US's military adventures. The "Leaders" of the European countries are daft enough to do so. Probably. Roll on the elections!
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  260.  @StephanBuchin  Yes, I expect the Europeans will be able to partly get over their mistake. However, it will cost them dearly, it already has. I doubt that the Russians are (evidence) "struggling to sell its oil and gas" or that it will in future. The Russian and Chinese friendship with the Gulf Oil monarchs looks like a death knell for the petrodollar. If the Russians an OPEC cooperate they can keep the oil price high for a long time and the lower volume sales will be offset by higher prices.
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  261. The Problem is not Joe Biden, he is but a symptom. The problem is the USObsession with being Top Dog, come what may. With being "Exceptional" when they are clearly not. With their having the idea that they must go out and make the whole World safe for American Big Business. Those are the real problems; get rid of JB and hardly a thing will change. A big part of the problem is that far too many US citizens think, as you do, that getting rid of JB will make a fundamental difference
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  262.  @danielscotti9471  Replacing him will make practically no difference. There are a dozen with the same policies as he, just waiting to be "chosen". Replacing him with Trump, might make a difference, but I doubt that it would be anything substantial. The problem is, that the REAL government of Western nations is not up for election, it's permanent.
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  263. Very important video! Thanks for showing this. Among other things it shows that Putin is a straight talker, he says what he means and he means what he says. Our politicians mostly spout BS.
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  264. In my view, this leak has been done to forestall the "Great Ukrainian Spring Offensive" because it will be a massacre of Ukrainians, who are under armed, under trained, short of ammo, without effective anti-aircraft defences and facing well-built Russian fortifications. They are also facing Russians with far more artillery and ample ammunition and a fully functional air defence system and a large fleet of aircraft.
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  265. The US is stupid to think they might be able to get China to lean on the Russians to end the war in Ukraine. Just think, what is the US's declared reason for not wanting to supply Ukraine with ATACMS? It is they need them for "Other Conflicts". Like what? Well, like attacking China! So, they are asking China to free them up to get ready for a war on China? That's exactly what it looks like. The Russians are forcing the Ukrainians to use up NATO's stockpile of Weapons, faster than NATO can make new ones. NATO (Aka the US.) wants these weapons to fight China. So, the longer the war in Ukraine goes on the easier it will be for the Chinese to beat the US War Machine if they are attacked and the less is the likelihood of the US daring to attack them. There is an old Chinese proverb that says, something to the effect of: "When your enemy is making a stupid mistake, don't interrupt him!"
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  266.  @juderamnarine5617  Does it sell the channel?
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  267. Это правда. Насколько мне известно, это было правдой с момента окончания Великой Отечественной войны, но пропагандистские усилия по «доказыванию» обратного продолжаются. Сейчас больше, чем когда-либо.
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  268. I suspect that the European "leaders" are all either cocaine addicts or being blackmailed (Where is J. Epstein's little black book?) or both. Their behaviour is so consistently deleterious to the interests of their own countries as to be explicable by "normal" stupidity.
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  269. Correction! "explicable should be "inexplicable " (!)
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  270. Typical of This regime in Ukraine; they lose a battle and take revemge on civilians.
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  271.  @pmp2559  Good Question!
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  272. 2:39 I wonder, Jens, where you are going to get the weapons to drag this war out for decades?
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  273. It seems it is not so much a matter of "lack of commitment", to Ukraine as a "lack of arms", to send. Without the arms for them to use, what use is sending men, going to be?
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  274. IF!
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  275. How long is the World going to tolerate these monsters? How long is the World going to accept the spiel that "Israel is the only Deocracy in the Middle East" without falling over laughing? If this is a "democracy" what is the difference between it and the Germany of the 30s and 40s? Elections?
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  276. 3:10 NATO is not really (I.e. in the real World, ) a defensive alliance. It has never, defended anyone. It has only attacked. E.g. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libiya, Yugoslavia. Now, it is talking about attacking China. So why do YOU call it a "Defensive Alliance"?
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  277. I did two years NS and it was very largely a waste of my valuable time. it produced nothing of any value for Britain. As to reintroducing NS now, "to combat Russia", that is frankly ridiculous! It was ridulous when I did NS too, there never was a Soviet plan to invade Western Europe, as was well known in NATO HQ, from the start of the Cold War. If the West stops provoking Russia, the Russians will not attack anyone. That the whole Anti-Russian and Anti-Chinese schtick is phoney all through (the concern for "Cultural Genocide" in Xinjiang and Tibet and the "Human rights of the LBGTQXYZ and the 72 sexes" in Russia) can be seen by the US/UK's indifference to the REAL GENOCIDE and REAL abuse of EVERY HUMAN RIGHT in Gaza!
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  278.  @duncansmith7576  You think that the only purpose of a war is to take ground/cities? You should have listened to what Putin said was the purpose of the invasion when the Russians invaded. He said that the purpose of the invasion was to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine and make sure that it was Not part of NATO or in other words "neutral". Nothing about conquering the whole of the land mass of Ukraine. De-militarizing Ukraine means destroying Ukraine's weapons and their army. That is what they have done. Isn't it? De-NAZIfying the Ukraine means destroying (at least) the power of the Ukrainian NAZIs which they have very largely done. Making Ukraine into a non-NATO state, remains to be done, probably through negotiations when the fighting stops, or when negotiations start. The point of continuing "to fight an army with no ammunition" is that this war is disarming NATO! Ask yourself: "Why does Zelensky's army have no weapons, too few men and no ammunition?" "Is it because the West has not given it any? NO. Is it because the West does not want to give it weapons? No. The reason is that the West has used up its stocks of weapons supplying Zelensky's army. The Ukrainians have worn some out, they have used up a lot, the Ukrainian government has sold a lot on the World Black Market and the Russians have destroyed the rest. The longer the war goes on the fewer weapons the West has. Big-arrow offensives cost a lot of lives and the Russians want to lose as few men as possible. Advancing slowly, is more economical and the Ukrainians keep bringing Naxis to be killed and weapons to be destroyed, so why would the Russians go wild and advance rapidly? Do you understand now?
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  279. I wonder if the World will believe this? What about the UK? are they going to follow suit or are they the way that the USA will "get rid of its chemical weapons" while still keeping them?
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  280. Yeah! But, this clock is showing some courage. Telling the truth in Washington is not universally popular!
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  281. Russia cannot be defeated. So, the obvious next move is to stop fighting and killing people and negotiate a peace. It stands to reason doesn't it? As the old saying has it "A bad peace is better than a good war" This war is not a good one, it is bad almost beyond belief and if, as seems almost certain, Ukraine, even with NATO's help cannot win it, further fighting is plain stupid. Not to say criminal.
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  282. Are not insurance services profitable? Isn't the remark during the "Two Ronnies" sketch, in which one, playing the insurance agent says: "You don't seem to understand the first principle of Insurance!" and the other rreplies: "All right, What is the "First principle of Insurance"?" "You give me a lot of money." "And then?" "Well, That's it. You give me a lot of money!" So. What is to stop Chinese or Russian or any other country's insurers from picking up the business?
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  283. What would you call people who arm, supply, train, fund, give targetting infomation to N*ZIs ?
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  284. This is a misleading headline. "Carpet bombing" is one thing and "Bombing the energy sector" is something else. Carpet bombing is what Germany did to London and what Britain and the US did to Germany during WW2 and the US/NAT* did to Mosul and Raqqa more recently. The Russians have been trying to minimise civilian casualties during the war in Ukraine and the civilian Deaths in the time since Feb. 2022, have been less that the civilian casualties in Gaza, in the first two weeks of the present war there. Present day Gaza is an example of REAL "Carpet Bombing".
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  285. Hungary blocked the EU@s aid to Ukraine because the EU refused to give Hungary the aid for the Pandemic that was Hungary's.
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  286. You failed to mention that the same investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh who has a long and distinguished record of exposing US crimes, has written a fairly detailed expose on the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines. Why?
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  287. 1:06 "the biggest risk is if Putin wins the war" Says Stoltenberg. This is a risk that NATO undertook enthusiastically a year ago, when they thought that they were invincible and Russia was going to be a push-over. Their trouble is, that they believed their own propaganda. They did not check that they had the means to fight, if the Russians fought back. To put it crudely, they were caught short. It is fascinating and at the same time, extremely alarming to see what NATO will do next. You can bet they will be the sorest of sore losers.
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  288. Could well be!
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  289. You know that the Seymour Hersh version of events is credible and comes from a famously reliable source. The stories from the MS Western media are blatantly rubbishy. You can tell that the Hersh story is true by the way the MSM will not talk about it! If it were untrue, they would be rubbishing it 24/7.
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  290. These hegemons in Washington are "sanctions Crazy"! They seem to think that sanctions are the only form of diplomacy. I believe it was Lavrov who said: (Words to the effect) "When I ask diplomats from the Global South how the US bribes them to vote "their way", the reply was: "They say: 'If you vote our way we won't punish you!' "
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  291. 1:26 This senator Tuberville is right on all counts. The war was indisputably provoked and the Russians are winning it now and, provided the conflict remains conventional, the Collective West (CW) is going to lose it.
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  292. How can the US "Crack down on" deals between Russia and China? I don't see how it can be done. How could China, for example "Crack down on" deals between, say, the British government and Lockheed-Martin? Likewise, can't be done. This is thinking divorced from reality, unless they are going to go to war over it. Otherwise it's like the Ant trying to push over the oak tree.
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  293. @Massimo Maghetti Thanks.
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  294. They can't beat the Russian army, so they take revenge on the Russian civilians. Typical of losers.
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  295. NATO "needs" a more robust arms industry. So Stoltenberg says, but in truth the Russians and the Chinese want peace not war. If NATO would embrace peace too, we would not need more weapons. The USA has weaker, friendly neighbours to the North and South and a huge ocean to the East and West. it has a very heavily armed population and no one is threatening it, so why does anyone need more arms? What danger is the US in? The only danger it is in, is that may soon not be the largest economy in the World. All the other countries in the World, without exception, manage to survive not having the largest economy. Why cannot the US?
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  296. 2:34 "US Led Western allies expressed alarm over growing military ties between Iran and Russia." Yes. What did they expect to happen when they sanctioned both?
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  297.  @chrisgrossedout6914  " nonsense about depleted uranium being radioactive, which it isn’t." Tell it to the Serbians and the Iraqis and see what they do to you.
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  298.  @thomaslaubli1886  This is not an argument, this is an insult. I am not into that sort of thing. If you have some evidence to refute what I am saying say it, otherwise keep your witticisms for someone who will like or dislike it.
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  299.  @marietheresa7866  Only 15 years? Really? And then?
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  300. "Germany was heavily struck by war and Russia's decision to reduce gas supplies to Europe" This was not RUSSIA's decision! This was the German government refusing to certify the NS2 pipeline, the Bugg*ring about with the repair of gas turbines to drive NS1 and the US's sabotage of both NS1 and NS". None of this was Russia's doing. So why are you echoing this CW propaganda? Are you Indian or a US puppet?
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  301. It seems to me that without the US and NATO "rattling their sabres" in the Western Pacific and encouraging Japan to recreate its old Imperial Navy, there would be no need for China to militarize and build up its navy. Who needs FONOPS "to protect international trade from Chinese attack", when almost all the trade that "needs protecting" is either coming from or going to China? It is abundantly clear who is and who is not "stirring up trouble in the West Pacific".
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  302. Another such victory for Ukraine and they will run out of soldiers.
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  303.  @georgecherian6520  Yes, more or less.
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  304. You're putting the blame in the wrong place. It's like blaming the Organgrinder's Monkey for the tune that is playing.
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  305.  @warrenweaver6664  I agree, absolutely.
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  306. 3:27 Zelensky has already (30/4/24) admitted that 31,00 is an "underestimate."
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  307. 4:00 No. The swindling supplies of ammunition, was NOT the result of anything that Congress did. It was because between the Russian destroying Ukrainian arms dumps and the Ukrainians firing them off and the west being unable to make them at sufficient speed, the UAF ran out.. I wonder where Joe thinks he is going to get ammo for Zelensky now?
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  308. Sorry! Apologies for typo! Not "Swindling" Dwindling!
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  309. I wonder, can anyone tell me: What is the key difference between the Israeli policy towards the Palestinians and *itler's government's policy towards the Russians or the Jews?
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  310. @ShakakuKoruna420 Nearly true!
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  311. Everyone who has been interested in the War in Syria, has known from a long time back, that ISIS, ISIL, IS, Al Qaida and all the rest of these bodies were US proxies. At the start, in 2011, it seemed that angry Syrians were attacking the government of Syria and then, that this group suddenly became overpoweringly powerful. The alarmed US came in to fight them, (uninvited) but they continued to gain ground, in spite of the best efforts of the US to halt them. Over the years from 2011 to autmn 2015, ISIS got stronger and stronger and ruled a larger and larger Califate carved out of Syria, Jordan and Iraq. No one could stop them! The US bombed them continuously, but they continued to grow and to conquer more territory and to control a bigger population. The greatest mystery though was : who was financing them??? No one seemed to know! Then the Russians came to the aid of the Syrian government and ISIS (or whatever it was called at that time) started to lose ground. Then the Russians showed aerial photos, of the convoys of hundreds of oil tankers, carrying Syrian oil off to Turkey and Israel and the mystery of ISIS's finances was solved! The US "bombing of ISIS was shown up as make-believe and shadow-boxing, and ISIS as a US proxy. The rest is better known.
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  312. This looks like projection. The Collective West is running out of weapons (particularly 155mm ammunition) so they assume that Russia must be running low on ammunition too. There seems to be no confirmation in reports from the battlefields that the Russians are running short of anything. However, the US is desperately trying to find someone to blame for the failure of their puppet to defeat the Russians. They have blamed the Iranians but that story does not seem impressive enough. Who better to blame then than the Chinese or the North Koreans or both?
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  313. Until NATO started really "Poking the Bear" hard, there was no danger to guard against. The German government policy was rational until very recently. Of course, if you are going to provoke an armed conflict with a neighbour, it is as well to find out how capable he is before you start! It seems that the Collective West, made the potentially fatal mistake of believing their own propaganda about Russia's feebleness, corruption, stupidity, laziness, cowardice, disorganization, dud equipment, "a gas-station masquerading as a country" and so on and so forth. They, obviously thought, that the barrage of sanctions, they imposed, would crash the Russian economy and the Ukrainians would crush the Russian army, (if the Russians even had the nerve to respond militarily to their challenge, (which was massacring 14,000 Russian-speaking Ukrainians between 2014 and 24/2/22 and threatening ethnic cleansing of the rest.) They thought, apparently, that the crashing economy and the military defeat would lead to a "color revolution" in Moscow that would remove Putin and install a pro-western government. They were wrong on all counts.
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  314. 4:16 It never fails! Almost every statement that comes out of the United States is hypocritical double-speak. Israel and the US are so close to each other that it is impossible to tell, which is the tail that wags the dog! Impossible to say: are they one organization or is Israel a puppet of the US or is the US run by the Israelis?
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  315. 3:19 "It is very, very, important that the US follows the UK lead." Lo! Behold the British tail wagging the US dog!
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  316. 0:56 What a childishly idiotic comments by the US! Just because the Russians are beating the US and dozens of its allies/satraps in Ukraine, and they cannot do much to stop Russia, they get, all petulant! I thought theUS's strength was in PR! This is no way to go!
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  317. Note the number of Leopard 2s, 14 and the number of Lwopard 1s, 88. Then read this from ADL: "1488 | Hate Symbols Database | ADL The first symbol is 14, which is shorthand for the "14 Words" slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The second is 88, which stands for "Heil Hitler" (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet). Together, the numbers form a general endorsement of white supremacy and its beliefs."
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  318.  @eskytan7472  God alone knows!
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  319. 4:43 How about someone "imposing costs on the US government to hold IT accountable for ITS ACTIONS?
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  320. 2;15 "In 2014, when Russian attempts to keep Ukraine in its orbit failed" Whew! What a nice, fancy, euphemistic way of describing the US State Department's "Color Revolution", where they violently overthrew the properly, democratically, elected pro-Russian government of Ukraine! Look out! Your bias is showing!
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  321. "Russia started preparing for a Nuclear since the US wantonly blew up Hiroshima" No. The Russians started work on an A-bomb when they noticed that all mention of "Nuclear chain-reactions" (which had been a hot topic for years in the scientific journals of the West) had completely disappeared from them. "Ah ha!" they said among themselves, "So that's what they are working on!"
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  322.  @briansims1987  Japan had already started to sue for peace. The A-bombs were dropped on Japan so that they would surrender before the Russians invaded Japan. They were also intended to frighten the Russians.
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  323.  @briansims1987  On Hiroshima the book to read is The Decision to Use the Bomb by Gar Alperovitz, On the start of the Soviet nuclear bomb program I heard it from Acadamician Pro.f. Peter Kapitsa
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  324. 3:09 The US denied that Ukraine had any hand in the terroris attack on Moscow within 55 minutes of the attack! Boy! What an intelligence service that must be!
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  325. Does anyone seriously doubt that it was the US or its puppets that blew up the NS1 & NS2? As to Lizz Truss's msg to Antony Blinken, I would echo one of her predecessors: (Talking about something far less probable!) "It is highly likely."
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  326. "To slow down Ukrainian troops" IF they ever get there, that is!
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  327. It would not be a great surprise!
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  328.  @henrikstephenson2246  True, but the Russians were left little choice. Ukraine was conquered in 2014, by the US, led by VP Biden and Victoria Nuland.
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  329.  @winstond4445  I have been to China.
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  330. No real problem there! The CIA is very good at fixing election results.
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  331. It really isn't the fault of the Zelensky regime, they are all puppets. You might as well blame the Organgrinder's monkey for the tune the barrel organ is playing! The blame for this whole catastrophe, lies in Washington, with the small clique which has been, since WW2 at the latest, intent on conquering Russia, dividing it up and looting it, as they did when the USSR broke down.
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  332. Can anyone remind me, please, of a treaty that the US has not violated? Just at the moment, I can't think of one. Oh! NATO, I suppose, because no one has attacked a NATO member.
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  333. Nobody needs, a good reason to want to stay out of the frontline, at the moment!
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  334. The US has been crazy for a long time, but when they were thought to be "overwhelmingly powerful" no one dared to contradict them and so, they were never upset and their crazyness was not so obvious. Since Russia dared to stand up to them and defeated their proxy, they have become hysterical and all judgement has "gone out the window"!
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  335. Kirby is projecting, as usual. The Russians have destroyed several armies in Donbas and they have depleted the NATO arsenals. If the Ukrainian Offensive fails, where does that leave the Collective West? At that point the CW may want to negotiate. Maybe, the Russians will too, but if they don't, what then?
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  336.  @sigma_six  The judges at Nuremberg would not agree with you.
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  337.  @GeorgeGreene931  A) The referendum which separated Crimea from Ukraine was not illegal and B) more importantly, cutting off water from the inhabitants of a city is a "Collective Punishment" which is illegal. I.e. you are not allowed to prevent children from drinking just because you disapprove of their parents' actions. I would have thought that that was obvious! Attacking civilians to pressurize the military is not allowed under international law.
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  338. 0:39 Such a claim is pure propaganda. Putin does not, typically, set deadlines. He is too clever to make such a mistake. He knows that the future is essentially unpridictable. The purpose of the Kiev authorities in saying that he has set such a deadline, is to be able in three weeks time to say: "There! Putin's prediction has failed!! Wasn't he STUPID to make such a prediction!!!"
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  339. 2:57 The US worries that Russian, China, Iran and North Korea may gang up against them, and their diplomats try to put wedges between them, while other US statespeople, attack all four with sanctions and other means! Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing?
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