Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Neocons Unlimited War, Russia Missile Strike, Ukr Hits Black Sea HQ, Zelensky: War Lost Without US" video.

  1. 1:16:42 And in that speech he used the word "China" twice and made no mention at all of the fact that for China WW2 started in 1931or that the Chinese lost some 20 million people in the war or that they tied down some million Japanese troops or, indeed, that the Chinese had any part in defeating the Japanese!
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  2. The statement in he Economist that "Putin cannot be trusted" reminds me of Matilda in the morality poem by: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) "MATILDA WHO TOLD LIES, AND WAS BURNED TO DEATH MATILDA told such Dreadful Lies, It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes; Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth, Attempted to Believe Matilda: The effort very nearly killed her, And would have done so, had not She discovered this infirmity." Maybe, just maybe, people are starting to think that attempting to believe Zelensky may be similarly dangerous!
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  3. 1:12:22 Thinking about logistics; one of the reasons that the West is so strapped for production facilities to send more weapons and ammunition to Ukraine is the adoption by the West (and I suspect to a far lesser extent by Russia) of the philosophy of "Just-in-time Working". JITW implies no surplus anything; no surplus raw materials no surplus of half-finished goods, no surplus workers, no surplus space, no unused machines and that is just what they have! Add to that a lot of the raw materials and semi-finished goods they would need to supply materiel to Ukraine are sourced from Russia and China. It is interesting to ask: "What is the attraction of JITW?" It is a bean-counters version of common sense. Any surplus raw material represents "unused capital", i.e. capital tied up and not earning interest. The same is true of surplus half-finished goods. Unused machines are unused capital, Un- or under-used workers are just an un-necessary expense. Surplus space, could be rented out for someone else to use or if it can't be rented out it may attract tax, so better destroy it/sell it. Probably, this reasoning cuts less ice in Russia? In the West, the overriding concern of bean-counters and directors is the bottom line and the stock market price. Probably, the Russian are working on a longer timeline.
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