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

  1. As to the question you ask: "Is Brics still relevant in today's world?" YES!! Indeed I do! It has the potential to speed up the de-dollarization of the world's trade. This in turn will, if successful, lead to the inability of the USA to bully other country with its illegal sanctions. As the war in Ukraine has shown the military weakness of NATO (which until very recently was assumed by most people to be invincible) the US is left with sanctions as its most potent weapon for forcing other countries to do as it demands. Destroying or downgrading this ability will have massive (almost entirely good) effects on the World. Long live the BRICS! More power to their elbows! May all countries that do not fancy slavery join BRICS!
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  2. 20:23 Isn't it odd that the Russian dissidents attack Russia only on the Ukrainian border? Just where the Russian forces could be expected to be best prepared to deal with them?
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  3. Windfall tax ? Not really! The USA provoked this war and used it to de-industrialize Germany in particular and Europe in general and then profiteered on the resulting "Crisis". This tax is not before time!
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  4. "If Taiwan has been paying attention to Ukraine conflict," they will aviod being the US's proxy fighters, which is undoubtedly the US's plan for them. The people of Taiwan are not stupid, so I doubt that they will fall into the trap being set for them by the warmongers in Washington and the traitors in power at the moment in Taipei.
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  5.  @Senninhamcl  Quite clearly, now more than ever before, the USA is no friend of Europe (or any country that "threatens" to be more prosperous than or to compete with the USA) e.g. Japan, China, Britain.
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  6.  @SlowReactionDriversAreTheWorst  "So why are countries still part of an organization that has left them out high and dry." Very good question! Could it have some connection to Epstein's "Little Black Book"?
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  7. “We Have Nukes That Can Hit You,” Putin Warns. This seems to be the only thing the MSM extracted form Putin's State of the Nation speech, which lasted two hours or more!
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  8.  @suniacougar1056  The fact that Biden is senile, makes little difference as the POTUS is a puppet of the "Deep State" or "Permanent Civil Service". You can see this from the way the POTUS (Trump) ordered the Army to "leave Syria" and they refused! POTUSes have said that they were "refused information about UFOs". This also means, of course, that the presidential elections in the US are a sham. Does anyone believe that Biden is running the USA? Really?
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  9. It would not be great for the shareholders and employees of the arms manufacturing comanies.
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  10.  @entername3840  The USG does not change with elections. Personnel changes but policies do not.
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  11.  @RodiyahJones  Are you a shareholder in the MIC?
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  12.  @askyalumumba3573  Good Luck with that! I think the POTUS is more or less powerless.
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  13. Until the declaration of the PRC, the USA thought that the South China Sea belonged to China. After the end of the WW2, the US Navy took Chinese soldiers back to the islands of the South China Sea to re-occupy them. It was only when the political colour of the Chinese government changed from Black to Red that the US discovered that the South China Sea did not belong to China! The Chinese and Russians are not engaged in an "incursion"! No! Perish the thought! they are engaged in an excursion! A FONOPS if you like.
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  14. It would be interesting to know, how many of the depressed were vaccinated with the experimental mRNA vaccines. I predict that no one in the collective West will be allowed to investigate this question.
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  15. The "political instability", like most political instability everywhere, is funded by the NED. The aim is Regime Change, in each case.
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  16. 28:15 We value your input because you cover topics that the Collective West's MSM neglects. Congratulations on your million!
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  17. Do I think. . . . .? Yes! Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch!
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  18.  @lesbetts5694  The BBC unbiased? You joke, surely? I have never heard CBC, as far as I know, but if it means "Canadian Broadcast Company" I would bet it is no better than the BBC, because it will be controlled by the same so-called "Integrity Initiative".
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  19. The collective West is fiercly defensive of Capitalism. It holds that it is the only good economic system. That state control of industry is "Authoritarian". That, for example Oil resources should be privatized. One of the effects of Capitalism and "Free Competition" is that the clever, inventive, companies are more financially successful than the less inovative and less cunning. This is touted as one of the benfits of Capitalism. And yet, Musk is too rich? Really? What you mean, I think is, that you do not like what Musk is doing! Well, Tough! Suck it up! He is a product of the Capitalist System.
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  20. They are all wasting their countries' money, as none of them are under threat. Admittedly, they will get more bang for their bucks, but it is still a waste.
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  21. It seems unlikely that the US and Britain will allow the Ukrainians to indulge in diplomacy. They tried that in March and were "dissuaded" by Boris Johnson. Lizz Truss seems to be more warlike than even Boris. The ideas behind this war and its associated sanctions, are to destroy the Putin government and to destroy the German economy. (Which is the first priority and which the second, I do not know, but that both aims are important to Washington, can hardly be doubted.) The regime change in Russia is an obvious failure; the destruction of the German economy will happen, unless the German people (Not the traitorous German government!) prevent it
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  22. 9:26 The Spy balloon that the US refuses to say what it was carrying. The Chineserefuse to talk with the US because, they say, "What is the point of talking to people who say one thing and mean something else?" What is the point of talking to someone who says one thing and his officials do the opposite? It's just a waste of time!"
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  23.  @SeattlePioneer  " leaving Europe to solve it's own problems for a change." Like sabotaging the pipelines? you mean?
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  24. So India is just dicovering how hypocritical the EU government is? Welcome to the club! It is absolutely boundless! Actually, you (India) have to recognise that the EU government is a CIA Project and the (Unelected) leaders of it are all US puppets, with almost zero autonomy. \one of the main purposes of the war in Ukraine is to remove Germany and to a lesser extent, France and Italy as industrial competitors to the USA. The "Backfiring" sanctions on Russia, that the EUG have imposed on Russia are working well in that regard. No doubt the proposed sanctions will "help" the EU in a similar fashion. (IF Hungary allows them to pass!) Although the sanctions on Russia were passed to please Washington, the US is still importing more Russian oil than is Europe.
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  25. 5:35 "An Unshakable Alliance" Sounds ominous to me! Remember the unshakable support for the South Vietnamese government, the Afghani government? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kissinger said it: "Countries don't have friends, only interests."
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  26. Typical! Venezuela and Guyana were negotiating, so Britain send a warship to stir things up!
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  27. Obviously if Brazil and South Africa are plagued by rising unemployment and increasing poverty they should look to China, which is far and away the country with the greatest record of success, in dealing with such problems, for advice and help.
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  28. How about India swallows its animosity towards China and Pakistan and joins the BRI? They could send goods by raiil, through China, Pakistan or Iran, probably. Of course using the BRI they would have to defy the US.
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  29. "Mainland China wants a peaceful reunification but the US wants to sell more arms to Taiwan ". You are right about China but: the US wants FAR MORE than that! They want to collapse both China and Russia and Iran too, so that there will be no country in the world that can afford to say "No!" to any of Uncle Sam's wishes. They will then sell off the Assets of Russia, China and Iran to the highest bidders and "live happily ever after" on the proceeds. Yes, I know it sounds like a ridiculous fairy tale, but it is not an unfounded allegation. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the husband of the Undersecretary of State of the USA, Victoria Nuland, has written a book about it (Google it, or go to https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Grand_Chessboard) and so have many other powerful and highly placed American politicians. This policy has driven US foreign policy since the end of WW2 and continues to do so today. It is the purpose behind having more than 800 military bases all around the periphery of Russia, China and Iran.
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  30. 4:14 "Rein in your press!" Yes! Exactly what they have done to their own press and made it so dull and predictably false as to be virtually unreadable.
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  31. 2:35 The US has completely reversed its opinion. So, is it right now or did it get it right the first time? It displayed no doubt either time. I think this is pure projection. IIRC the US Consulate (Note, consulate, not Embassy) in Hong Kong has 2000 employees. They must be really busy issuing visas there!
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  32. 5:32 The reason the Chinese are not talking to the US is quite simple: When Xi Jinping met Biden, Biden told him that the US respected the "One China Policy". Almost immediately the US stepped up its cultivation of the separatist movement in Taiwan. The Chinese concluded that they could not trust anything the US said and asked themselves: "What is the point of talking to them? There is no point. It is a waste of time." Can you blame them?
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  33. As the US stuck to Iran's money for a decade or more, as the US told Venezuela that its president was not its president, but some relatively obscure politician was and then gave him Venezuela's gold reserves, as the US has "Frozen" and is now in the process of stealing the Russian's foreign exchange reserves, it is hardly surprising that people are "starting to mistrust the US." What is REALLY surprising is that anyone trusts them at all!
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  34. 3:55 The sanctions on Russia have hurt the Europeans very much indeed. They have, for example wrecked the German economy (To the benefit of the US.) Josep Borrel is a hard-line representative of the WEF/Brussels burocracy. We the people of Europe have not been asked but I do not think he represent the views of the Majority of Europeans. To us, the Sanction on Russia look like "cutting off our nose to spite out face". Probably, he and his colleagues will suffer not at all.
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  35. It was to please the clique in Washington that Europe placed the boomerang sanctions on Russia.
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  36. All these confrontations take place on the borders of China. If the US wants to avoid such incidents it is very simple: Just stop spying on China! The Chinese will not be sending spyplanes or warships to spy on the USA. As for Taiwan, there is a Civil war that the US has intervened in. The Chinese regard Taiwan as part of China, so do the Taiwan government, so, officially, do the USG! The difference is that the Mainland Chinese think that the Chinese government is located in Beijing and the Taiwan government thinks that it is located in Taipei.
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  37. The US recognizes that Taiwan is part of China and promises not to encourage the Taiwanese independence movement. The US does everything it can to encourage the Taiwan independence movement. The US sends billions of dollars' worth of weapons to Taiwan to defend itself against China. I wonder how India would like it, if the US were to encourage/support with vast quantities of weapons, the Kashmiri independence movement?
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  38. 17:72I have very little liking for Donald Trump, however, I think it is crystal-clear that he is being attacked by a Democrat Administration which is afraid he might defeat them at the next election. Russiagate has been proved to be a fraud and now they are cooking up new charges which equally dubious soundin. The charges against Trump also sound very odd, compared to the DOJ's silence on the vastly more shocking revelations about Hunter Biden's Laptop!
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  39. 9:16 So now you Indians know how the Chinese feel about the US meddling in Xinjiang.
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  40. Belarus is a threat to the USA? Really? What are they going to do? Does Belarus have Navy?
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  41. 11:58 If the US did not default in 1971 what did they do?
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  42. Very appropriate response to this report. You could also have mentioned Julian Assange, being tortured by the US's ally, Britain, for reporting the US's War Crimes. Held in Britain's worst Prison, for being a journalist!
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  43. You cannot say that the "Chinese are not interested in diplomacy"! They are very, very, active in diplomacy and are making much more headway in it than is the US. De-dollarization, for example is a field where the Chinese diplomacy is having huge effects. The Belt and Road initiative, involving 140 countries, is a product of Chinese diplomacy, as is the new accord between Saudi Arabia and Iran. It is the US which has, apparently, forgotten what the word "diplomacy" means. One US general was quoted about a year ago as saying that a US aircraft carrier steaming towards the Middle East, was "100,000 tons of diplomacy". (!)
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  44. I have heard that the original name of the war on Iraq was: "Operation Iraqi Liberation"! But later it was changed as being "too likely to be misinterpreted."
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  45. 4:00 What, if anything, is the evidence that Russia wants to expand its territory? It was after all, provoked, deliberately, into this war, by the US and its allies. They had to work really hard to do it.
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  46. The G7 are all US vassals. Of course any member of the G7 has to choose either the BRI or the G7. Italy chose the G7. Who is surprised, no doubt they do not fancy the US's reaction if they chose the BRI.
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  47. 4:42 Can Italy change the EU from within? Not very likely. The real question is: can the EU survive the suicidal sanctions that it has placed on Russia? No government that does not have the power to tell its central bank what to do, is sovereign. I.e. a government which does not directly control its country's money supply, has any real power at all, as, if its Central Bank does not like a policy, it can refuse to fund it, thus killing the policy. Thus, one can, justifiably, say: that no eurozone country is sovereign. They all have to bow to the dictates of the ECB.
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  48. China will recover. Almost all its debt is internal. The New Development Bank is, as its name suggests, new. It is hardly surprising that it has a smaller operation at the moment that the World Bank and the IMF whose roots go back nearly a Century! Methinks you don't like the BRICS much.
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  49. How do you know that all these Chinese places around the world are "Spy Bases"? Was it the Chinese who told you or the Americans? I assume it was not the Indian secret service because, as we all know, the Indians don't do spying.
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  50. 30:52 China has suffered all sorts of setbacks, it has not stopped them. No doubt they will suffer others and you will rejoice over them, but it won't stop them. It is no wonder, their enemies are the whole of the Collective West and they are powerful, but all the same, they are not powerful enough to stop the Chinese.
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