Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "As US continues New Cold War, Russia and China forge new ties" video.

  1. Excellent, though I think the figure 300,000 for the Nanking Massacre may be high. There is no reason to reach for the sky here: it would have been Japan's Guernica if the number had been 5,000. It is certainly not true, though, that "The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with." Oil is traded in all currencies and currency-baskets, and oil is far from the only commodity in which the US is a successful exporter, rendering credibility to the greenback. The dollar prices posted in newspapers may represent spot prices for various fungible contracts but they have only the most tenuous connection with the way major long-term oil supply arrangements are made. Donald Trump was a stupid little twerp, but at least five, perhaps more, of the world's ten most hefty universities are in the United States: the dollar is not toilet-paper yet. The West tends to have false views of our history with China, and this sort of corrective propaganda, while imperfect, is a partial corrective. Obviously, China's return is the best thing that has happened to the human race lately.
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  2. "New Cold War" isn't pushback, it's delusional fantasy of the sort we are more used to seeing puffing out of Breitbart's chimney. There's nothing cold about Russia's imperial foray into Ukraine.
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