Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Alexander Mercouris" channel.

  1. I think the practice of putting heavy weaponry in civilian setting is what NATO was teaching, at least in Ukraine. I think this was stated by one of the British volunteers who was captured by the DPR forces.
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  2. Has anything the Ukrainian Intelligence Service ever said turned out to be true?
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  3. 1:03:06 I think that one reason that the US pulling out of one treaty after another, has caused so little stir, is that people have come to recognize that the US does not honour any treaty that it signs. The history of the US is littered with broken treaties, going all the way back to the treaties with the original inhabitants of the North American continent,
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  4. 1:02:24 The thing that, above all else, makes the Russian economy and way of life resistant to sanctions and even other more serious attacks, is that they grow all the food they need to feed themselves, They also have all the fuel they need to process and transport this food around their enormous country. This foundation is enough to ensure that they are very difficult to destroy, but they have much more than that going for them besides and then they have the backing of and a long common border with China. Truly, only lunatics or people who have swallowed their own propaganda hook, line and sinker, could think to take on this combo as insouciantly as the US appears to be doing!
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  5. 28:51 Bear in mind that about a year ago the Ukrainian army bombarded a POW camp housing prisoners captured in Mariupol. Maybe shooting down the IL76 was not an accident?
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  6. 0:55 The conditions are of secondary importance. Who cares what the background is? The importance of your and Alex's videos is the spoken content, the invaluable information that you collect and distribute. That is the gold, the rest is of very little importance, don't worry about it, I don't and I am pretty sure that the rest of your audience does not either. We are merely sorry that you are having difficulties.
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  7. 3:50 Isn't it wonderful that people who clain to "Support Democracy" use the term "Populist" in a denigratory sense?! What sort of mental gynastics does that involve?
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  8. 8:30 There is also the striking difference that in Bachmut, the Ukrainians were a formal Army with a highly standarised structure armed and supplied by the Collective West with all the weaponry they could spare, while the Hamas in Gaza, is a vastly smaller force of irregulars, with very limited resources, no similar back-up and nowhere to retreat to. Incidentally. I note that during WW2, the German side always described the Partizans and other resistance fightters, as "Terrorists".
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  9. 4:05 There is nothing "extraordinary" about Israeli government hypocrisy. It is absolutely standard.
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  10. 28:30 The Ukrainian regime has been shelling civilian targes in Donbas, non-stop, for ten years, since 2014. That hardly makes their claim that they "do not do that sort of thing", credible. Not long ago, they shelled a market and killed a similar number of civilians in Donetsk City.
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  11. 5:25 If that is the deal (Turkey to get more modern F-16s) then Erdogan has more faith in the US's word than I have.
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  12. The problem is that it is not a dispute between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Ukraine is a by-product of the constant (century long) attempt by the US to wangle itself and its vassels into a position where they can defeat and subsequently carve up Russia and China (and probably Iran and India too). In other words; the problem is, nothing more nor less than, the US's desire for World Domination. Until this is recognized as a problem, correction! The problem, there is no chance of dealing with it.
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  13. This war in Ukraine is a prize, a textbook example, of what the Chinese describe as: "Lifting a rock, only to drop it on one's own foot."
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  14. 5:40 British editors do not "think out" their responses to world events, they wait to be told what their response is going to be.
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  15. 23:17 It might have made "better sense" for Ukraine to adopt a defensive strategy, if the Russian had willfully attacked Ukraine and Ukraine were an independent country. However, this was not the case. The Russians intervened to stop the Ukrainian army committing a genocide against the Russian-speaking inhabitants of the Donbas and Ukraine was/is not an independent operator but a puppet of the US. The purpose of the war is, for Ukraine to damage Russia, which would probably be harder to do with a defensive strategy.
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  16. 4:00 There is no need to postulate any such agreement between the Russians and the US. You told us yourself, not long ago, that the Russians called in the British and French ambassadors to Moscow, and told them, very forcefully, that if they found that the Ukrainians were hitting targets in pre 1991 Russia with British or French missiles, they would take it as justification for hitting British and French military targets anywhere in the World. I imagine that the US took this to be equally applicable to US arms. (They had no ambassador in Moscow at the time.)
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  17. 55:38 One of the barmy aspects of this discussion is that even were the Germans to help the Ukrainians launch these missiles and they hit some targets, you have to be delusional to think, that it would greatly alter the course of this war. On the other hand, the consequences to Germany, could be very grave indeed.
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  18. 1:07:26 In fact it looks as though Putin's ambition is much larger than recreating the Soviet Union. What he seems to be working on, is an economic union or free trade area stretching from Vladivostok to Harbin to Vietnam to India to Saudi Arabia to Egypt to Turkey to Iran, Georgia, to Moscow. In effect, unifying the whole landmass except for Western Europe. All, probably with security guarantees of each other.
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  19. 31:05. The reason the Western leaders did not want to negotiate before Feb 24, is that they had the idea that the Ukrainians were going to make mincemeat of the Russians and together with the sanctions were going to destroy the Russian economy and bring about Regime Change in Moscow and they would all live happily ever after, or if not until then, at least until they could do something similar in Taiwan!
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  20. The great merit of the Kursk operation as far as the Russians are concerned, is that it is a concentration of "Nationalist" troops, such as they have seldom had the oportunity to kill off. What you might say is that it is enablibling/facilitating the fulfilment of one of the aims of the SMO, as set out by Putin at the start of the operation.
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  21. 37:27 One of the people who say that Zelensky is no longer the legitimate president of Ukraine, is the man who drafted the Ukrainian constitution.
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  22. 45:39 The agreement between MBS and Xi Jinping is in a way even more important than the Ukraine war, in this sense: The agreement to sell Saudi oil for yuan, cuts the USA off at the knees! It spells the reduction of the importance of the petrodollar and its possible destruction. It really is a financial earthquake the like of which I cannot recall.
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  23. 1:15:07 The whole scene, as time goes on, gets more and more reminiscent of the fight with the Black Knight on the bridge, in Monty Python's quest for the Holy Grail. The unwillingness to face up to reality is quite uncannily similar.
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  24. 18:23 Unless, of course, they were launched by NATO pilots flying NATO planes.
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  25. Most boys learn in junior school, if not in Kindergarten that if you don't think you can win, it is as well to not start a fight in the first place and if it looks as though you are losing you should stop before you get hurt worse than you have been already. How come our generals and political leaders seem not to understand this?
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  26. The Russians would see the threat of the 3-million man army, as a hollow one, all the more because of the story that Alex told us today, of the US finding it "difficult" to ramp up its production of 155 mm ammunition because the Ukrainian firm it used to buy TNT from, is now in an oblast that has voted to join the Russian Federation. (Oops!)
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  27. 40:52 I think you will find that this sort of welcome to a visiting head of State is fairly standard in China. I remember reading an account of a senior official of a fairly small African country who accompanied his Head of State, his President, on a visit to China. He was absolutely astonished at the welcome they got and he contrasted it with a visit that he and his president had made to Washington shortly before this visit. They got the same treatment as Lukashenko, by the sound of it, in Beijing, while in Washington, they had been met at the airport, by a fairly junior official from the State Department and taken by a State Department car to where they were staying. It is part of the Chinese effort to treat all countries as "more or less equal". All equally deserving of respect. They have, in the past, been treated with gross disrespect themselves and do not want to be seen doing it to other countries themselves.
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  28. 38:44 I made this analogy yesterday (I think it was in comments on one of Alex's pieces) but it seems to me that the position of the West is getting more and more analogous to that of the Black Knight in the Monty Python sketch of the quest for the Holy Grail; where he challenges King Arthur and loses a limb or two and instead of admitting defeat, because he is obviously bleeding rapidly to death, he is insists: "'Tis but a scratch!" I'm waiting for the finale, when the West lies legless and armless on the ground and shouts after the disappearing knights of the round table: "Come back! And I'll bite your legs off!"
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  29. 1:07;31 At a time when the US is constantly talking about "war with China" it would be negligent of the Chinese not to prepare for war with the US. Particularly when the strength of the US is visibly ebbing and the time when they could realistically expect to win against China is clearly disappearing into the mists of the past. Why is anyone surprised or shocked at Xi Jinping's speech? What would anyone expect?
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  30. During the cold war, there was at least one incident on the US airbase in Cambridgeshire at Mildenhall/Lakenheath, when the hot exhaust from one jet fighter which was being loaded with ammo, set off a missile on a plane waiting in line behind it. This missile hit and destroyed the first plane and blazing fuel from this plane ran down into storage bunkers under the place where these planes were, where four hydrogen bombs were stored. Owing to heroic efforts by the servicemen present, the H-bombs were preserved intact.
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  31. 1:07:21 The global majority does not agree with the US's policy on Ukraine or with their policy on Palestine, either.
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  32. The issuance of this statement by the Chief Prosecuter of the ICC, will have increased the prestige of the ICC enormously, merely by its being issued at all. It will have exceeded many people's expectations, merely by today's limited action.
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  33. 16:06 Why was he "rude"? Clearly Al Sisi was furious. Ye Gods! In his place I would have been "hopping mad"! Here he was, being invited by the smug Blinken in front of him, to take part in an act of Ethnic Cleansing. I.e. invited to participate in a (war?) crime against his fellow Arabs, by a Jew. Can you wonder that he was not overly polite? Why on Earth would he have agreed to that? Just to please the US? Why would Qatar have agreed to fund it? The only way I can account for it myself, is that Blinken thought that he, as a representative of the USA could ask anything of anyone and they would click their heels together and say "Yes Sir!, Of course, Sir!"
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  34. 33:03 What this makes clear is that the US was never so much worried about "Communism" so much as that the Communists were not subservient to the US. They have exactly the same worries now. It is not that the Iranians are Islamists it is that they won't bow down to the almighty dollar. Same goes for Syria and for any other country. It is always the same motivation, what changes is only the language which is used to disguise it.
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  35. 1:21:25 "If the West says that by getting close to China, Russia has become a vassal to China, Logic, that kind of Logic would argue, that if India becomes close to the United States, it becomes a vassal of the United States." Well, isn't that exactly how the United states has always thought? I have certainly always had that impression. They don't want equal partners, they want subordinates who will do as they are told.
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  36. 51:10 Having served in a unit of the British Army which had visits fro Brigadiers, generals and Princess Margaret, I can think of a very good reason for not telling the generals that they were going to be visited by Putin. Namely, such a visit signalled in advance would almost certainly waste an enormous amount of soldier-hours on pure, unadulterated BS!
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  37. Whatever one may think of Putin, the words of his you quote, are the words of a humanitarian.
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  38. Another possibility is, that as the battle of Bachmut has been extremely effective in grinding down the Ukrainian army, the Russians might allow a relieving force to break in (probably thus incurring huge losses) and simply continue the grinding down when they are there.
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  39. When the Russians are victorious in this war, which looks extremely likely, they will be faced with a weakened CW as has never happened before. I hope they will be able to use that opportunity, to permanently de-fang the US hegemon and teach it to live in peace with its neighbours! It will not be easy, but I think they will have the enthusiastic support of the rest of the World in so doing. If anyone can do it I think that the Eurasian combination probably can.
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  40. The way the MSM keeps repeating that Ukraine is not involved in the event in Moscow, reminds me very strongly of their insistence at the start of the SMO that Russia's agression was "UNPROVEKED"!! As a matter of Logic I wonder if it is ever possible to be certain of the non-existence of a connection between two things? How can one be certain within minutes of something happening that Xyz was not connected to it?
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  41. 7:54 It seems from your account, that they do not mention that the sanctions have damaged Europe, fat more than they have damaged Russia.
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  42. 53:39 One of the things that may really militate against launching this offensive, is the loss of a large amount of ammunition in the Russian drone strike, that may have blown up the DU ammunition supplied by the UK. Certainly a lot of something exploded in that strike!
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  43. 43:53 The Zelensky attitude to negotiations does nothing for Ukraine, but must be exactly what the US MIC wants and needs. It will, of course, also suit the members of Zelensky's clique.
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  44. 56:56 Not only are the Iranians getting up-to-date fighter jets but, according to a headline I saw just before this program; the Chinese have brokered a rapprochment between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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  45. 5:55 To say "THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT UKRAINE WAS INVOLVED", over and over again, when there is, as you point out, evidence that Ukraine was involved; is, itself, evidence that, at least the MSM, think that Ukraine WAS involved.
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  46. 4:04 The British strikes, I understand, were carried out illegally under British Law. Apparently Sunak did not ask for permission from whoever it is he is supposed to ask.
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  47. 2:09 Stockpiling diesel oil. Not only may they need it for themselves but the US has been (Or so I read.) buying Russian diesel to supply Ukraine.
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  48. 1:17:20 The US behaves the same way with its allies. The only difference is that the "Allies" grin and bear it instead of calling them out.
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  49. The "International Rules Based Order" has always been a phantasmagora. It has never been defined. You cannot buy a copy of the Rules, because they have never been defined. They seem, to me, to be a bit like the "thoughts" (Die Gedanken) in the medieval students' song "Die Gedanken sind frei", in that they seem to me to fit the description of thoughts in the song : "Die Gedanken sin frei, wer kann sie erraten? Sie fliegen dabei, wie nachliche Schatten" (Thoughs are free, who can guess them? They fly around, like shadows in the night.") That seems to me to be a pretty fair summary of the Rules in the International Rules-Based Order. Who can guess them? Good question! They fly around? Well yes, one moment they apply to the Chinese and the next they don't fit the Israelis!
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  50. 47:30 This group in Washington is the cause of NOT JUST the crisis in Ukraine but of almost all of the tension and threats that so bedevil the World today. Give Credit where credit is due!
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