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

  1. You did not mention that the Russians allege, that the drones which attacked the fleet which was protecting the grain ships, from mines laid by the Ukrainians, were launched from "civilian" ships.
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  2. I hope she is investigated thoroughly. If the rumours are anything to go by, there is plenty to find out. As you say, it is a source of rather sour amusement, to hear her going on about the "undemocratic" nature of Russia, China, Iran and other places. One major problem seems to be her fanatical hatred of all things Russian. Hatred is not a good advisor.
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  3. If Russia has "no right to veto Ukraine's joining NATO, how come the US had a right to veto Cuba's joining the Warsaw pact?
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  4. 4:16 Looking at how the US and the Collective West treat their own poor, it is no wonder that as you say: "The eradication of poverty seems to have been left by the wayside." Were they ever sincerely interested in doing any such thing?
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  5. To quote another British Prime Minister: "Highly likely!"
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  6. America's debt ceiling is an annual pantomime. I don't know, I am not a financial expert but, judging by past history, the "Chinese debt Crisis" seems to be another myth like "The Imminent Collapse of China" that I have been reading about since 1949.
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  7. No, not really. The Swedes have been, effectively, members of NATO in all but name, for years.
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  8. Russia was not at the meeting in Lucerene because it was not invited! You should have mentioned that.
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  9. The EU set up a slush-fund to help EU countries get over the pandemic. Hungary was eligible for 13Billion euros, but because the EU did not like their attitude towards Russia (The did not hate the Russians) they refused to pay out. Now, they want Hungary to pay into another slush-fund, which will (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge) "Fund Ukrainian Reconstruction" and, (guess what) the Hungarians won't!. WSMANM!!
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  10. "Ukraine has lost 30,000 troops in this war." The Ukrainian government seems to specialise in (Ehem!) innaccurate statistics and this is one of the least believable. Even some British newspapers have expressed doubts about it! I wonder why, with this scale of losses they are short of manpower? After all they started the war with an army of 800,000 (They were, confidently, expected to defeat the Russians easily. Remember?) and they have been recruiting frantically for a long time, so 30,00 should be no problem.
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  11. 0:38 The Chinese have designed and built intrinsicly safe nuclear reactors. Thorium molten salt reactors. They sound particularly suitable for use on the moon as they are self -limiting and do not need water for cooling. They are also small and relatively light. A moon base would need something like this for the two-week long very cold, dark nights on the Moon.
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  12.  @andyhughes1776  The problem appears to be that NATO believed its own propaganda about Russian military and Russian arms! The Ukrainians were ready to fight - the forces they believed they were facing. Unfortunately for them, they were woefully misinformed.
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  13. These sums you mention are well within China's capacity to handle. It's wealthy, it can take losses. It has taken plenty in the past and carried on as though nothing had happened. No doubt it will lose more in the future, but that is something it can deal with.
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  14. 4:47 This sounds like the British Navy in 1700. Samuel Pepys bought the position of Secretary to the Navy and discovered that there was no form of accounting in the Navy! The government bought what the Navy said they needed and handed it over to the Navy and that was the last the Government knew of it! Pepys, invented "double entry bookkeeping to remedy this situation. Interesting that the Pentagon seems to have adopted a similar system.
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  15. If I am not mistaken the head of Ukraines Military Intelligence Organization (HUR Chief Kyrylo Budanov) has contradicted your statement, saying that Russia is recieving neither Drones from Iran nor missiles and shells from the DPRK.
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  16. 7:09 All that power! And yet, even with their support, the Ukrainians cannot defeat the Russians! How extraordinary!
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  17. 9:00 NATO says: " the expansion was because of Russian aggression." What Russian aggression are they referring to?
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  18. Would start to fix the problem.
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  19. 0:51 Information brought to you by the same people who told you about the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was making.
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  20. Zelensky does not need to worry! Kaja Kallas, PM of Estonia, says her country will bring Russia to its knees for you.
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  21. You are implying that the debt that Sri Lanka owed was to China but was it? I think most of it was to the IMF. The same with the debt that Male owes. To whom does it owe this debt?
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  22. 1:38 Oh America! Does everything you do have to be done covertly, in case someone sees what you are doing and gives you away? Is your middle name Sneaky? "The best disinfectant is sunlight" and your "Diplomacy" (Hahaha!) can't stand the light of day. Sounds about par for the course. I suppose you want: "An informal deal, one that is more or less off the record", so that when you renege on it, (As you will.) you can pretend that it "never really existed".
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  23. The meeting in Lucerene was also to strengthen Zelensky's shaky position as Ukraine's president, which, according to the Ukraine constitution, he no longer is.
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  24.  @theonly6359  That's what I thought.
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  25. The uranium comes from Russia.
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  26.  @AdmiralBonetoPick  The trouble with the Polish government is that is blinded by its hatred of Russia. The hatred may be justified, but hatred is a bad advisor.
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  27. Having decoupled/been decoupled from Russia with really disastrous results it would seem pure madness, quite suicidal in fact, for Germany to decouple from China as well. The Greens however, are not rational they are idealogues. So, in pursuit of their agenda they are quite prepared to destroy the German economy.
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  28. The problem China has with US diplomacy, is that they feel (based on long experience of it) that the US does not mean what it says. E.g. it says that it respects the "One China" policy and then arms, encourages and supports the separatict movement in Taiwan.
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  29. "Ukraine Submits to US and European Pressure for Talks with Russia" This is like saying: "Mr Punch submits to the stallholdr's pressure to talk nicely to Mrs Punch and to the policeman."
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  30. f @АлександрСтарыйметаллург  Русские также были вынуждены осознать, что США не желают терпеть каких-либо экономических или политических конкурентов и хотят балканизировать Россию, чтобы облегчить ее контроль.
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  31. What I think is that the collective West is led by a small clique of WEF/Warmongers in Washington DC and administered by an almost incredibly incompetent or evil bunch of amateur nonentities in the European capitals. The crisis is caused by their attempt to destroy the Russian economy (a perfect storm of sanctions) which was intended to cause a color revolution in Moscow. Unfortunately for them, the Russians "saw them coming" and were prepared, so the Russian economy though somewhat damaged, did not collapse, but almost immediately started to recover. Meanwhile, back in the Collective West, they discovered that they had cut themselves off from their cheapest supplier of fuel, fertilizer and food, without making sure that they had adequate back-up suppliers. Apologizing to the Russians and trying to make up with them, would be too embarrassing, so rather than do that, they are prepared to let their populations suffer and in some cases die. They are all the more prepared to do this because, they have the religious belief that there are too many people in the world and they do not have hearts but rather swinging bricks. Their masters also want European industry bankrupted, to consolidate the hegemonic position of the USA. Europe, particularly Germany was too much competition. The USA has largely deindustrialized itself, moving much of its production to China and now finds itself short of productive industries and skilled workers. So an influx of German capital, knowhow and skilled workers would come in very handy! Keeping up with China is apparently an existential matter but is not going to be easy.
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  32. Crooked officials in China face detection and punishment. You say that the local governments are owing $21trillion but you do not say to whom do they owe this money? If the debt is internal, this is an administrative matter.
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  33. The MSM are struggling because they are controlled in what they can report by their advertisers e.g. the big pharmaceutical firms ( Iverm*ctin) and they are controlled in the political news they can report by the so-called "Integrity Initiative" (I do not know if this applies to this channel) which is an offshoot of the "Five Eyes" security apparatus, which has its assets in every major English-language newsroom and tells the chief editor, in real time, what news is publishable and what is to be suppressed. This makes the MSM dull and unreliable. If it is losing readership, well, that's not such a bad thing! It is also predictable.
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  34. What matters is not so much the debt, as the interest payments on the debt and the terms under which the loan is made. Another important point is what was the purpose of the loan?
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  35. Do I think NATO is a bit late to the party? NATO is not "late to the party". Its problem is how to and whether to make the party happen. Since well before the end of WW2, powerful people, mostly in Washington and London, have been trying to work out a scheme to conquer the USSR/Russia. So far, either their schemes have ultimately failed or "they have done the maths" and decided that "the time is not yet ripe" to put their plan into action. This war in Ukraine is the latest failure. NATO is a "defensive" alliance which has never defended anything! It has only ever attacked. Sometimes it gives lying excuses and sometimes it just attacks. Its permanent excuse is the allegedly "Aggressive" nature of Russia or the alleged human rights violations of those it wants to attack. Oddly, Russia's supposedly aggressive nature shows itself only when it is attacked, as e.g. in Georgia. Russia has one or two military bases in other countries and one peacekeeping operation. (I think.) The supposedly "Peaceful" USA, by contrast has attacked about fifty countries around the world since 1950 and has about 800 military bases spread across the Globe. NATO has mostly fought peasant or third world armies and is not geared up to fight a peer competitor. Its MIC is used to screwing the US taxpayer and making wonderful weapons at fantastic prices and to making fabulous profits for its shareholders, but seems to be a bit lacking when it comes to basic things like heavy artillery and the ammo to use in it, anti-tank missiles, anti aircraft/missile defenses. In conclusion, I would say this is not the right question. You should be asking do we need NATO and if so : what for?
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  36. 0:51 This drill will use up vast quantities of aviation kerosine and will put many tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Where is Greta when you need her?
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  37. All these Chinese local government loans are an internal Chinese matter. They have no external debts to worry about. If you imagine the Chinese government is going to fall over an internal problem like this, you are going to be disappointed.
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  38. I often find myself disagreeing with your analysis but I turn to it because you cover things, particularly the war in Ukraine, from a different perspective and more extensively and with less bias than that adopted by virtually the whole of the Collective West's media. The Guardian's criticism of you, is basically that you do not follow the dictates of the "Integrity Initiative", the CIA/MI6 backed organization that controls every newsroom in the CW's media, telling them 24/7, what to publish and what to say about it. More power to your elbow!
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  39. The native Americans or rather the Original Inhabitants of what is now the USA say: "the white men speak with forked tongues." They have reasons a-plenty to say this. Every treaty the USG made with them was broken. The Chinese say that they are unwilling to talk with the US, because they say one thing and do something else. So, By all means talk with the US, but keep your wits about you. Don't take anything on trust. If you have a contract with them, make sure it is watertight and bombproof. Make sure you know the definition of every word in it and the implications of every phrase. If you don't, you will kick yourselves for not doing so.
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  40. I think that NATO would be very foolish indeed to provoke a war with Russia. The war with NATO in Ukraine has shown that the Russians, with a small part of their armed forces engaged, can exhaust NATO's supplies of ammunition, that their air defence system can give them air superiority and their hypersonic and other missile are very hard or even impossible to defend against. NATO is certainly not in a position at the moment to wage a war on Russia. If it did it would have to aim to win within a couple of months or it would have nothing to fire at the Russians except nukes and there is no future in that. If it dragged on for more than a couple of months, where would they get the raw materials needed to make arms and ammunition from? China? If NATO went to war with Russia it would be taking on not only Russia, but at least China and Iran as well, as both know that if Russia were defeated they would be the next to be attacked.
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  41. I would tell the minister that Tesla cars Can be hacked and have been. The fact that the opposition won gains, PROVES NOTHING. The The machines may have been unhacked and the opposition won "fair and square" or the opposition may have won by hacking.
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  42.  geranienbaum  If you know that, presumably you are more familiar with the company than I am; do you by any chance have an address for them? I have an idea that I would like to share with them, but I could not find where to send it! I would like to find the company's address or better still the address of their design bureau.
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  43. Weirdly, they are still shelling Donbas civilians! In spite of being short of ammunition.
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  44. Just listen to the US! Complaining about "Putin's war of agression"! By which they mean the war in Ukraine that they worked so hard to cause, over about twenty years! Anyway. How can they complain about anyone else's "Unprovoked agression"? when they have, themselves, attackted something well over 100 countries since 1945! Their record puts Russia's well in the shade.
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  45. The EU telling Hungary to "weed out corruption"? What?!! I should Coco! The same EU whose president bought ten doses of untested Pfzier vaccine for every member of the EU and tried to prevent any enquirey into why? That EU? LMAO,RAOFL! The EU is criticizing Hungary for issues of "Law & Order"? The same EU that Stole Russia's foreign exchange reserves? Talk about a nerve? They are utterly shameless!
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  46.  @wobkgs  If you remember, the SMO started at the end of Feb 2022, the Russians and the Ukrainians started negotiations in March 2022. This was what the Russians wanted. They reached a tentative sgreement with Ukraine at the end of March. This agreement was sabotaged by Ukraine's Western handlers. They told the Ukrainians to keep on fighting and promised to supply Ukraine, "For as long as it takes" with enough weapons and finance to hand the Russians a"crushing defeat". "what everyone thought" is just tribute to Everyone" reading and listening to the MSM. The lesson here is that, the MSM are profit-driven organizations, which publish whatever is the most profitable to publish. They have absolutely no legal obligation to publish the truth and very little penalty for publishing extreme "misinformation". (Otherwise known as outrageous lies.)
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  47. I forget of whom it was said and who said it, but during the Cold War there was someone who expressed a wish to not take sides and this angered someone who said of him: "He has sat so long on the fence, that the iron has entered his soul!" (An amusing example of a mixed metaphor.) India should also bear in mind Kissingers dictum that "To be the US's enemy is dangerous. To be its friend is fatal." Look at history and you can see that he was not joking.
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  48.  @avijitgoswami3082  There is no cure for stupidity, it is genetic. Ignorance is, however, a voluntary misfortune. Duckduckgo is your friend!
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  49. 23:20 Not true! In Japan a few months ago a laboratort was working on AI controlled Soldier-robots when they went rogue and killed (I think, if I remember correctly) twenty-nine researchers before two researchers managed to turn them off. This is very dangerous!
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  50. Yes! Of course I agree that countries should "side with Russia"! Russia was forced into this war in Ukraine. It is fighting the US's proxy army, which is spearheaded by unabashed fascists. (Who have Stepan Bandera as a figure to revere.) The Russians tried to negotiate a peace with Ukraine in March, and got Ukraine to almost agree to a deal, but then Ukraine was "persuaded" (by Boris Johnson) to go back on the deal and fight to the last Ukrainian or "total victory". In addition, the Kiev Regime has been waging a genocidal war against Russian-speaking Ukrainians, since 2014. How can any decent person support that?
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