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

  1. 1:24:32 Almost certainly you can trace Argentina's financial trouble back to its relationship with the IMF and the World Bank. The CIA has been meddling in Argentina since forever. It is a large and potentially a very rich country and as Japan, China, Germany and the UK can tell you the last thing the US wants is countries that are economically powerful enough to stand up to its bullying.
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  2. Stupid rather than insane. They seem unable to think more than one move ahead.
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  3. 52:39 The fundamental problem, is the existence of a small but very powerful group (probably) in the US that is determined to make sure that the US remains the World Hegemon, come what may. And that (correctly) sees the existence of an independent Russia and an independent China as two insuperable obstacles to that ambition.
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  4. Very good and accurate description of the situation. What puzzles me is how exactly this war will end? Will the AFU just collapse and the US declare a victory and walk away, a la mode d'Afghanistan? They are so tied up with their own politics at the moment and they have wars in Israel, Syria, Thailand, Myanmar, Yemen, and Lebanon and they are being thrown out of various African states and they have a huge monetary crisis to deal with at the same time. Unbelievably, they seem to want a war in the Philipines and Taiwan as well! When the Russians win, which they will, what will they do then? They will have a truly gigantic task clearing up.
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  5. 1:03:31 There is also the point that a lot of people seem to lose sight of, which is, that apart from Ukraine, the Russian Army has the enormous Russian Federation's territory to defend. If Putin were, really, to throw the whole of his forces into the battle to finish off Ukraine, it might prove too much of a temptation for some other hostile force to attack somewhere else. I agree that it looks improbable at the moment, but as you yourself have said: "War is unpredictable" and Putin is a very cautious man.
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  6. 44:00 The only "military challenge" from China is that if they are attacked or interfered with they will hit back. In effect all the Chinese are saying is "keep your nose out of our business and it wont get hurt."
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  7. 30:50 There is no advantage to the USA to be had in Ukraine. The purpose of the Ukraine war was, as you have said yourself, to damage Russia and to collapse the Russian economy and thereby to remove Putin from power. Also NATO in Ukraine would have a very menacing position for launching nuclear weapons towards Moscow, This is only of importance to people who think they can win a nuclear war. The importance of Ukraine to the US public is very small, it is only important, very important, to a small clique. The West, the population of the west would not be damaged at all, by a Russian victory in Ukraine, on the contrary, anything that reduces the power and prestige of the aforesaid clique, can only be beneficial to them.
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  8. T 23:14 This US attack, carried out in "self defence" of an illegal base, is analogous to a burglar attaking a householder who tries to throw him out "in self-defence". "I'm allowed to defend myself!"
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  9. "Statesmen" who have been bought or blackmailed.
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  10. 1:00:12 It seems unlikely too, that Putin would have chosen to kill Prigozhin while the BRICS summit was taking place.
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  11. 17:28 I wonder how Modi, who is an intelligent man, thinks he can maintain equidistance between two mutually hostile countries, when one of them insists: "You are either with us or against us!"
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  12. Thank you very much for making the effort to keep us informed. If it is 'flu that you are suffering from, do take care not to "overdo things". The foreman of the Cavendish Laboratory's instrument-making workshop, caught 'flu and took a week off, he came back to work, took his coat off and dropped dead. 'flu seriously weakens the muscles of the heart, so give yourself time to recover. I am sure I speak for almost all of your audience, when I say we would much rather miss you for a week or three than do so permanently.
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  13. 27:46 The No.1 priority for Netanyahoo, like all other politicians in positions of power, is to stay in power.
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  14. 1:22:49 Not only did the US make a mistake by pressuring the ICC into issuing the warramt for President Putin's arrest, but they compounded the mistake, by celebrating it gleefully and very publicly, when they got the result they had asked for!
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  15. 1:12:46 All the US's actions over Syria, over Taiwan, over Iraq were/are at least as illegal as this proposed seizure.
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  16. Endless sympathy for the Uighurs and yet none at all for the Palestinians! Isn't that curious?
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  17. Shifting The Blame The CO kicks the Major, The Major has a go. He kicks the poor old Captain Who kicks the NCO And as the kicks grow harder It's plain for all to see: They're doing it, me lads, To Save Democracy!
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  18. 43:38 This renaming of streets looks to me like panic. I know a man whose wife gave birth to a desperately sick child with a huge tumor in its body. Instead of worrying about treatment to deal with the tumor, he was obssessing about the danger of scarring on the child's arms as a result of the needles that were being inserted ! In the event, the child lasted only a couple of weeks after its birth. This looks similar, I don't know, if in the losss of the Titanic, there really was a reorganisation of the deckchairs, but if the story is true, it could be another example of the same sort of irrational behaviour as a result of panic.
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  19. 30:33 You mean that the US cannot break its word? What is to stop the other 192 states in the UNGA from each recognizing Palestine as a state?
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  20. 26:48 This is all done under the International Rules_Based Order. 1/ The Rules do not apply to us. 2/ They apply only to those whom we say they apply to. 3/ We decide what the rules are and YOU have to abide by them. OK? P.S. No, you can't have a copy of the rules!
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  21. 1:23:24 There was a more surprising article in the Daily Telegraph this morning, which seems to have disappeared now, warning people in Britain that the special relationship was a British myth and no help at all to Britain. The article concluded with a statement that the only beneficiary of it was the US. The authoress instanced, as an illustration of her theme, that the US Ambassador to Britain was Job for "chums of and donors to the POTUS", while Britain sent it finest diplomats to Washington to represent Britain. I would not disagree with a word of it, but I was surprised to see such an article in the DT!
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  22. 42:09 We have all seen that if you want to understand what the White House says; you have to turn it all upside down. When they talk about "peace" they mean "War". When they talk about "Helping" they mean "preventing" and so on and so forth ad nauseam. So when they talk about "deterrence" one can be fairly certain that they don't want to deter at all but to provoke.
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  23.  @joeordinary2trumpheroofrussia  " Nato is a defense pact, has never attacked Russia, " NATO has never defended anyone, it has only attacked or helped the US' attacks. To call it "defensive" is a really sick joke. It's an Orwellian joke.
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  24. 48:48; Hamas is not going to agree to release hostages (assuming that it still has some) unless at least a large number of Palestinians locked up by the Israelis on slight pretexts are released at the same time. That was the primary aim of taking the hostages.
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  25. 4:45 It sounds as though Richard Kemp would like the Russians to be fought, not "to the last Ukrainian" but to the last European!
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  26. 48:40 Pistorius, like all N@0 ministers and spokespeople, cannot admit, that the problem is not the lack of a "Security architecture" but the longstanding ambition of the Anglosaxon Empire to gobble up Russia. I don't know how far back into history it goes but it has been there for a long time and until it is decisivly defeated it will keep on causing trouble.
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  27. 38:48 Sounds like a crude attempt by the Telegraph to "stir things up" in Teheran.
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  28. Themagical thinking about recruiting the new Army to sweep the Russians away, almost matches the Ancient Greek myth about the Dragons's teeth!. The only problem is the lack of dragons!
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  29. 34:55 Look! This is not really a bad thing, it is a good thing! It shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that the British pretense that what we have is a "democracy" is just that: a sham, a pretense. The reality is, that you can elect whomsoever you like, you can have anyone at all as PM or Chancellor of the Exchequer and in the end the policy is set by the BoE. (Which is not elected.)
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  30.  @richardoldfield6714  No. You need to study the history before spouting nonsense.
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  31. 5:16 1000 shells/day on an 800 km front = 1 shell per day for every 800m of front. (2 shots/day/mile) This sounds "remarkably" quiet, to me.
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  32. 32:30 As I said yesterday(I forget whether it was a comment on a Duran video or yours or Alex's) a government with an "independent" (i.e. privately owned) central bank is in no sense a sovereign government, for the simple reason that such a CB will refuse to fund any policy that does not meet with its approval. As Harold Wilson found out, the hard way. The only way a government can set its own policies is if its treasury controls and issues the money supply. Or to put it another way if the government tells the CB what to do and not the other way round.
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  33. 1:07:51 There is a very large pushback in Germany which is being joined by people from other countries pusherback growing all the time. Including, I read this morning, even industrial workers and industrialists.
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  34. 1:22:26 It seems to me that the insecurity that plagues the World and has done so since 1945, is almost entirely caused by a small group of warmongers in Washington DC and their hangers-on in London and Brussels. These people form what I call for lack of a better term (I think that no one has given this phenomenon a name previously.) a "vicious circle". It consists of a complex of several parts; the USG, the firms making military arms, the members of the Congress and the Senate and the lobbyist industy, insofar as it relates to the arms industry. These components form a self-reiforcing ring-structure, where the congresscritters and USG officials are investing in the arms industry and profit from its dividedends and the notorious "Revolving door". The arms industry, in turn pays the Lobbyists to keep the congress-critters in line, by subsidizing their election expenses and the USG fuells the whole set-up by extracting taxes willy-nilly from the US public. It seems to me that so long as this Vicious Circle exists, there will be no peace in the World. Because it is very stable, ruthless and self-protective, it is very difficult for anyone or any ordinary organization to dismantle it. However, the present and the near future are far from ordinary times. As there is almost certainly going to be a Russian victory in Ukraine, it seems to me that the Russians would be in a position to insist on the dismantling of this Vicious Circle, which could be done by making an International law that said that all firms making military equipment, had to be state owned and that no private individual or corporation was allowed to own shares in such a firm. I think it might be much easier to get agreement to such a measure than to agree to complete disarmament.
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  35. 28:06 I agree with you. Look at it this way. Who is behaving like N*ZIs? Who was it during WW2 that regularly massacred defenceless civilians? Who was it that spoke of the civilians of conquered lands as though they were sub-human? The best you can say of the combatants is that they are as bad as each other and the people being killed are helpless victims of the savagery of the combatants. Since the security services of the US and Israel, set up Hamas to undermine the PLO, the blame should fall squarely on the CIA and the Israelis. You reap what you sow.
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  36. 1;13;35 I have the impression that the US public was particularly irritated that Biden dismissed, quite rudely, a question as to why he was going to Kiev, rather than to East Palestine, Ohio.
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  37. Around that time the Guardian was visited by Goons from MI5 and the "Integrity Initiative's" asset(s) was/were installed in the editorial board of the outlet. After that and to this day, it has been a sort of zombie version of its previous self. It also gave up allowing its readers to comment at the same time. As you say: truth went out of fashion, at least in the MSM.
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  38. 58:43 What no one in Washington seems to be asking is; "Why we need to worry about China?" No one is asking this because, this not a real question. The real reason for all the tension in the World is the US's insane, compulsive need, to be the most powerful country on the Planet. It has nothing to do with Values, or LBGTXYZ rights or enslaved Xinjiang residents or any of the other dozen "reasons". It is just a case of "World Hegemony or Bust!" At the moment it is looking increasingly like bust.
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  39. 54:28 None of these European satraps need their Patriot launchers and missiles, as they all know, perfectly well, that there is almost NO probability that Russia is going to attack them, when it has finished dealing with Ukraine.
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  40. 50:14 Britsh Ministers lying from the dispatch box? I am shocked! Really shocked!!
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  41. The US has another crisis apart from the ones you mentioned and that is De-dollarization! It never rains, but it pours!
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  42. 32:37 "Aye! And there's the rub!" Do the Israelis WANT an impartial negotiator? I have not seen any sign of that.
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  43. Whilst I am glad that the Russian losses on the Ukraine battlefield, are less that the undescribably terrible losses by the Ukrainians, but, remember that the Russian losses are already approaching the US losses in Viet Nam. I think back to my National Service in the British Army and remember parades of my regiment of approximately 1,000 men. I know what 1,000 men looks like and the thought of twice that number or even a fraction of that number being killed every day fills me with an indescribable horror.
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  44. How things are speeding up! Without yours and Alex's programs to prepare us for today's development I would "knocked all of a dramble!" The funny (Peculiar) thing is how so many people have no idea of what is happening. Thank you for all your research and for sharing it with us,
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  45. About the relationship between China and India: credit where credit is due, the US State Department is doing its level best to bring them together.
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  46. 37:18 This idea that the "Europeans are freeloading on the poor, harddoneby USA" ignores that the Europeans buy almost all their weapons from the US and that there is almost zero chance of the US being invaded by anyone.
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  47. This news about the Hungarians suggestion to ban only russian oil shipped to Europe in tankers (Ships), leaving oil sent by pipeline unaffected, reminds me of the old joke about the disarmament conference between the Russian bear, the German eagle and the British lion. The lion proposed a complete ban on the use of beaks. The eagle said he favoured a complete ban on the use of teeth for offensive purposes. The bear said he had a much better idea: " let us abandon all weapons altogether and simply embrace!"
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  48. 51:55 When I was a National Serviceman in the 1950s, I was for a while in a unit that had recently returned from Korea. Our Sgt said to us on one occasion: "If you are fighting alongside the Yanks, beware of this: Suppose you are held up by a machinegun post, the British way of dealing with it, would be to try to sneak a group in behind it and attack it from the rear while the rest of the platoon, company or regiment, kept it busy from the front. The Yank's way of dealing with it, would be to call up the airforce and give them the coordinates of this machinegun post and then the airforce would come and destroy it. However, if you ever do call up the US airforce, to deal wih such an obstacle, you had better make f'ing sure that you have some bl*ody good cover, because they will flatten the whole area, including you, if you arent careful!"
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  49. 23:01 And, I should judge, a disaster too, for Rishi Sunak, Grant Shapps and David Cameron. They have been enthusiastic supporters of Israel throughout, in terms of both moral and military support.
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  50. This war is not by any means or in any way, accidental. It was carefully prepared for some time, starting fairly early in the 21st century and worked on, together with a "perfect storm" of sanctions, using the war that the West knew they could provoke, to "justify" the sanctions. The purpose of the exercise was to cause the simultaneous collapse of the Russian economy and the defeat of the Russian armed forces on the battlfield, leading to unrest in Russia, leading to a color Revolution. The Collective West led by the US, seems to have been very confident that the plan would succeed and it seems that the planners assumed that the Russian government succeeding Putin's, would be more favourable to Western interests. The whole plan seems to have been founded on a totally false reading of the situation in Russia, the strength of the Russian armed forces and an equally false reading of the strength of the Ukrainian armed forces and the ability of the CW to sustain a war longer than a few months, This scenario would explain why the CW was never interested in negotiations. They did not want negotiations, because what they wanted, was the defeat of Russia and Regime Change in Moscow. They are still not interested, so presumably, their aim has not changed.
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