Comments by "Vaska Tumir" (@vaska1999) on "World Affairs In Context" channel.

  1. I'm from Serbia. It would be the height of stupidity for us to join the EU in the face of a clear, economically much more powerful alternative such as BRICS, that respects the sovereignty of its members. The EU is in rapid and irreversible decline, having shot itself in the head in ganging up on Russia, whose inexpensive energy products and whose market it can't hope to replace.
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  2. Those 800+ military bases in fireign countries sure cost a lot....
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  3. And nobody booed her, nobody broke out in guffaws at Ursula's barefaced lie about "cheaper" LNG from the US.
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  4. For the algorithm. Let's push back against YT censorship.
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  5. The BBC and The Guardian are offering their journalists special psychological support and therapy as they deal with the shock of the Trump win. I kid you not.
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  6. 40+ years as a Serb in Canada. Soon to bid it goodbye. 🙂
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  7. ​ @kwethew8562 And Russian energy.
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  8. Apsolutno se slazem iz trule Kanade, gde parlament daje ordenje SS-ovcima. Fuj!
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  9. Lena deserves a million subscribers and more. Excellent guests and first-class financial and economic analysis by Ms Petrova herself.
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  10. ​ @thomasjensen6243  Be patient. It won't be long now, and we all have Israel to thank for what's coming.
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  11. The problem was Germany chose to deprive itself of that which had underwritten its economic success: reliable, cheap and plentiful Russian gas for its industries and its consumer energy needs. It knew perfectly well that it had relied on it for the past 60 years and that without it, there would never have been the German economic miracle that took off once it began buying oil and gas from the Soviets. Instead of charting its own foreign and geopolitical policy as a sovereign state, it let itself be led by its nose by the US (and Brussels, also subservient to Washington).
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  12. I wouldn't mind the US being a great nation (no bully is a great man) if it just minded its own business, closed down the 800+ military bases it has around the world, and began practicing fair trading relations with the rest of the world. Since the American public shows absolutely no inclination to force their ruling class to adopt these policies, I can only pray the end of US power comes sooner rather than later.
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  13. Criminally insane, yes.
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  14. That's what de-dollarization is all about.
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  15. How about the rest of the population helping them?
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  16. We'll have to fight the fight and not just depend on the farmers to do it for us.
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  17. And Putin has a Ph.D. in economics (for real).
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  18. Don't forget Ursula von der Leyen, Joseph Borrell, and Jans Stoltenberg.
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  19. This is all about preserving the Empire, and it won't work. I wouldn't mind the US being a great nation (no bully is a great man) if it just minded its own business, closed down the 800+ military bases it has around the world, and began practicing fair trading relations with the rest of the world. Since the American public shows absolutely no inclination to force their ruling class to adopt these policies, I can only pray the end of US power comes sooner rather than later.
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  20. Inefficiency is grounds enough.
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  21. How exactly do you support them?
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  22. Her age doesn't enter into it. She's been fudging things for years now, deliberately.
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  23. BRICS will have its own regulations, though none of the silly bureaucratic ones about the acceptable length of carrots, for example, and it already has some political conditions for joining it. To illustrate: no country may join BRICS if it engages in any sanctions regimes against other BRIC members.
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  24. ​ @salvadorpeters7375  You have to find a way to force your oligarchs into giving up the obscene rates of profit they got used to over the past 30-40 years. Once upon a time, corporate tax rates were as high as 90%. It's doable.
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  25. I don't think that recession equals economic collapse. Germany is certainly in a recession, but it's a huge exaggeration to say that its economy has collapsed.
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  26. France and Italy aren't doing zilch to harm or contain Germany. It's an entirely American project.
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  27. 😂😂😂
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  28. How does one prepare for this? What options do we have? What can we do to prepare for this?
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  29. Eventually, yes. I just hope that it won't come all at once, so that people can get used to the new reality gradually and adjust.
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  30. He has a doctorate in social work. None of his degrees is in economics.
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  31. Slovakia, too, most probably. Possibly Bulgaria also, within the next 10 years.
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  32. 😮
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  33.  @michaelearlgrey  English is not his native tongue. It's perfectly clear he means their sovereignty, their sovereign rights to chart their own geopolitical and foreign, as well as their own energy policy.
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  34. 😢
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  35. She's lying, not misinformed. Her nickname is Von Der Liar.
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  36. Imagine the tax revenue if they taxed the US corporations doing business there.
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  37. They really should. Or, offer to sell their gas to Europe at 5% less than the cost of the American LNG.
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  38. ​ @tadhgcronin175 The war and the sanctions have, paradoxically, strengthened Russia, not weakened it. And I for one am very glad of that.
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  39. The people are not the problem.
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  40. 😂
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  41. In Ontario, Canada, houses selling for under $1 million are considered starter homes. Rents, in towns and cities of over 200,000, are so high that young people are sharing apartments with strangers in order to be able to afford shelter (living 5-6 in 2-3 bedroom apartments). A few months ago, our intelligence services submitted a report to our government, warning of social unrest in the coming 5 years or so due to high costs of living and especially high costs of housing. The report assesses that the majority of Canadian youth will never own a home of their own.
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  42. That's quite separate from the system for making payments, which this is about. BRICS has repeatedly said that it won't be developing a new currency to be used in general circulation and for everyday transactions, but it's still interested in creating a new, gold or commodities-backed currency which would be used only for country-to-country trade and transactions.
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  43. ​ @CURTISEDWARDS-i3l  An interesting understanding of democracy.
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  44. Yes, but much less and at a much higher price than it enjoyed before it decided to be unfriendly to Russia.
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  45. ​ @jayceontalylor4244 By blindly obeying the US and destroying the excellent trading relations they enjoyed with the unquestionably most advantageous energy supplier Germany's ever had.
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  46. The MSM are doing their job exactly as intended. We are meant to be kept in the dark about these developments.
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  47. That's a joke, a bit of sarcasm, right?
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  48. 😂😂😂
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  49. You mean the West is. And yes, the world understands just how evil the collective West is.
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  50. He also has a Doctorate in Social Work. No degree in economics.
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  51. ​ @stchan8569 None of his three degrees is in economics. His first degree is in music, and his Master's and Doctorate are both in Social Work.
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  52. What's PM?
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  53. EU countries are on their way down. It'd be the height of stupidity for us to join the EU when there's an economically better alternative.
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  54. Where's the irony? The guy's shown himself incompetent/inefficient, and in such a case, legal scholars agree, the president has the authority to fire him. Btw, it's exactly what Germany's Scholtz has done to his finance minister.
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  55. ​ @mydancinglife730 😂
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  56. Can someone explain to me the difference between CBCD and debit/credit card type of payments or wire transfers from one bank and one country to another? What are the CBDCs supposed to do that the already existing payment systems can't?
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  57. The US and Russia have NOT broached the Ukraine question yet. Their meetings to date have been exclusively about repairing bilateral relations.
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  58. Correct.
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  59. Not clueless -- just bare-faced liars.
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  60. 🎯
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  61. Germany's unquestionably the Sick Man of the EU, though.
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  62. ​ @firebir11 That's what the price of cucumber was here, too, until a couple of years ago.
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  63. This guy has a first degree in music (I kid you not) and a Master's and a Doctorate in Social Work. How he got to a position that requires an in-depth knowledge of economics is anybody's guess.
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  64. Good. Now go home already and leave Europe to itself please!
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  65. ​ @kirilmazurek2843  It's exactly the other way round.
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  66. Message, don't let the Anglos lead you by the nose. Look after your own interests and choose your friends wisely.
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  67. This was true 20 and 30 years ago, but not any more.
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  68. 😅
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  69. The number of people on welfare has been consistently decreasing since 2017, and the trend continues.
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  70. He doesn't care.
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  71. Except that, as it turns out, Germany needs Russia but Russia doesn't need Germany. With their proxy war with Russia, the neocon idiots in the US have only managed to Destroy Ukraine Strengthen Russia immeasurably Weaken Germany, perhaps irreversibly Draw Russia and China even closer together than they already were pre-2022
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  72. The BRICS+ nations are developing another financial settlement system, and they already overshadow the West economically (as well as militarily, of course).
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  73. All of the West does it, all the time.
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  74. 😂
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  75. Weren't they chips from Ukrainian washing machines? 😂
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  76. ​ @concerned_2023 Long before Trump came onto the scene, US neocons (both parties) were calling themselves Masters of the Universe.
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  77. Because the US has bought their politicians. It's as venal and sordid as that. Paul Craig Roberts wrote about it almost 10 years ago now. Every month, the State Department flies suitcases full of dollars to assorted EU capitals.
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  78. The entire ruling elite are so cut off from the rest of us, from the lives we lead, that they could as well be living in some other country than the one we inhabit. Both here and in the EU. Make you think of pre-revolutionary France and its self-indulgent aristocrats.
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  79.  @billb3673  The prices of everything were less then 10% of what they are today. More like 5%.
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  80. Cope harder.
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  81. Au contraire.
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  82. ​ @robertkubrick3738 The longer they delay works on repairing it, the more difficult it will be to restore it to a working condition. At some point, it will become impossible, in fact.
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  83. 😮
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  84. The world is simply re-organizing itself. A common historical process.
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  85. I've been using ExoressVPN fir the past 2-3 years and recommend it highly.
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  86. China doesn't need to cook the books. It now outproduces both the US and the EU combined. Having lifted 800 million people out of poverty. These figures are according to the US-dominated World Bank.
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  87. How do you explain such acquiescence? The current attitude does seem to confirm that Germans are abnormally compliant, as if hypnotized at birth to accept whatever "the authorities" tell them or do.
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  88. ​ @hmwong9235 Of course Scholz knew! Otherwise, the entire German government and the Bundestag too would be up in arms about the US blowing up their key energy infrastructure!
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  89. Russia is thinking long term, and Europe is but the westernmost peninsula of Asia.
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  90. 100%.
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  91. And yet you understood perfectly well what she said.
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  92.  @marcmcreynolds2827  Imported inflation, according to even the conservative Western press, is the result of the dollar's "exorbitant privilege", as de Gaulle put it back in 1960.
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  93. Jared Bernstein has a doctorate in social work. None of his degrees is in economics.
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  94. The GDP is a joke. What counts is what we produce. And we let US corporations move production abroad so we now produce a fraction of what we used to. For comparison, China now produces both us and all of Europe combined!
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  95. Don't be lazy. Google it first, and the answer to your other questions will become clear.
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  96. ​ @ScottKulik-f6q  Living above your means is all fine and dandy until it no longer is.
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  97. ​ @ScottKulik-f6q  Living beyond your means is great while it lasts.
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